Life and death: putting it all together, sentence 1

The children's answers gather the whole journey: it is okay to be very sad when a pet dies; to a friend whose parent died you can simply say «I'm sorry» and then be a normal friend; funerals are less scary once you know what happens; and grief comes back on birthdays and holidays, in waves that slowly get gentler.

Who acts: answers, pet, parent, you, I, funerals · What happens: gather, be, die, say, know, happen · To what, where: whole journey, normal friend, birthdays · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Life and death: putting it all together» 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 (answers, pet, parent, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 children	det
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 answers	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 children	case
4	answers	answer	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 gather	nsubj
5	gather	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 journey	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 journey	amod
8	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gather	obj
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 gather	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 okay	expl
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 okay	cop
12	okay	okay	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 gather	parataxis
13	to	to	PART	_	16 sad	mark
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 sad	cop
15	very	very	ADV	_	16 sad	advmod
16	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 okay	csubj
17	when	when	SCONJ	_	20 dies	mark
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 pet	det
19	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 dies	nsubj
20	dies	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 sad	advcl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 died	punct
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 friend	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 friend	det
24	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 died	obl
25	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	26 parent	nmod:poss
26	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 died	nsubj
27	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 okay	conj
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 say	nsubj
29	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 say	aux
30	simply	simply	ADV	_	31 say	advmod
31	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 died	ccomp
32	«	«	PUNCT	_	35 sorry	punct
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 sorry	nsubj
34	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 sorry	cop
35	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 say	ccomp
36	»	»	PUNCT	_	35 sorry	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 friend	cc
38	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	42 friend	advmod
39	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	42 friend	cop
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 friend	det
41	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 friend	amod
42	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 sorry	conj
43	;	;	PUNCT	_	47 scary	punct
44	funerals	funeral	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 scary	nsubj
45	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	47 scary	cop
46	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	47 scary	advmod
47	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 gather	parataxis
48	once	once	SCONJ	_	50 know	mark
49	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	50 know	nsubj
50	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	47 scary	advcl
51	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	52 happens	nsubj
52	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	50 know	ccomp
53	;	;	PUNCT	_	56 comes	punct
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 comes	cc
55	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 comes	nsubj
56	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	47 scary	conj
57	back	back	ADV	_	56 comes	advmod
58	on	on	ADP	_	59 birthdays	case
59	birthdays	birthday	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 comes	obl
60	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 holidays	cc
61	holidays	holiday	NOUN	Number=Plur	59 birthdays	conj
62	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 waves	punct
63	in	in	ADP	_	64 waves	case
64	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 comes	obl
65	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	67 get	nsubj
66	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	67 get	advmod
67	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	64 waves	acl:relcl
68	gentler	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	67 get	xcomp
69	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 gather	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
polarity: pos
teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=pos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gather	present	the children's answers	the whole journey				vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent journey=Theme
2	is	present					okay property	tree rules
3	is	to-infinitive					sad property	tree rules
4	die	present	a pet					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	die	past	parent				to a friend	vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	say speech: assert	can	you				simply property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	is in a quote	present	I				sorry property	tree rules
8	is a	infinitive	I not said here	a normal friend		then		tree rules
9	is	present	funerals				less, scary property	tree rules
10	know	present	you					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
11	happen	present						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
12	come back	present	grief		birthdays and holidays		in waves	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on birthday=Location
13	get	present	waves				gentle, slowly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
14	answer		the children					nom answer «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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:080-life-and-death-putting-it-all-together.lesson:1.

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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1. 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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