Gifts of life: organ donation and giving blood, sentence 5

For a child today this means: it is good to talk with your family about it, to say thank you for gifts of life, and to know that when you are older you can choose to help.

Who acts: this, you · What happens: mean, be, talk, say, thank, know · To what, where: you, life · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Gifts of life: organ donation and giving blood» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	For	for	ADP	_	3 child	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 child	det
3	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 means	obl
4	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 child	nmod:unmarked
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 means	nsubj
6	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 good	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 good	expl
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 good	cop
10	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 means	ccomp
11	to	to	PART	_	12 talk	mark
12	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 good	csubj
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 family	case
14	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 family	nmod:poss
15	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 talk	obl
16	about	about	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 talk	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 say	punct
19	to	to	PART	_	20 say	mark
20	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 talk	parataxis
21	thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 say	ccomp
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 thank	obj
23	for	for	ADP	_	24 gifts	case
24	gifts	gift	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 thank	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 life	case
26	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 gifts	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 know	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 know	cc
29	to	to	PART	_	30 know	mark
30	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 talk	conj
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 choose	mark
32	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	35 older	advmod
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 older	nsubj
34	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 older	cop
35	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	38 choose	advcl
36	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	38 choose	nsubj
37	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 choose	aux
38	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 know	ccomp
39	to	to	PART	_	40 help	mark
40	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 choose	xcomp
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 means	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: pos
teacher: changed polarity=pos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present	this			for a child today	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot for child=Attribute
2	is	present				good property	tree rules
3	talk	to-infinitive				with your family; about family	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.topic»: agent=Agent with family=Co-Agent about it=Topic
4	say speech: assert	to-infinitive					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	thank speech: thank	present			you	for gifts of life	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent you=Theme for gift=Attribute
6	know	to-infinitive					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	is	present	you			old property	tree rules
8	choose	can	you				tree rules
9	help	to-infinitive	you not said here				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
10	gift			life			nom gift «possession transitive»: of=patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:religion-ethics:078-gifts-of-life-organ-donation-and-giving-blood.lesson:5.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×3. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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