--- title: When someone dies — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «When someone dies», a lesson of the adult life course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Every living thing dies one day. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/24-when-someone-dies/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/) / When someone dies # When someone dies Lesson 24 of the adult life course of Mova's primary school: 20 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/adult-life/24-when-someone-dies/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/24-when-someone-dies/0/) — Every living thing dies one day. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/24-when-someone-dies/1/) — When a person dies, their body stops working for ever; it is not sleep, and they do not come back. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/24-when-someone-dies/2/) — Grown-ups often use soft words for it, like "passed away", "we lost him" or "she's gone", because the plain word is hard to say. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/24-when-someone-dies/3/) — Picture a living room in Melbourne: Dad sits you down and says, "Grandad is dying. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/24-when-someone-dies/4/) — The doctors say it's weeks, not months." Later he cries, and it is the first time you have seen him cry. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/24-when-someone-dies/5/) — The sadness after a death is called grief. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/24-when-someone-dies/6/) — It comes and goes like waves, and people show it in many ways, from tears to casseroles on the doorstep. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/24-when-someone-dies/7/) — Different families believe different things about what happens after death, and nobody knows for certain. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/24-when-someone-dies/8/) — When doctors say someone is dying, the illness cannot be cured and the body is slowly stopping; they can often guess roughly how long is left. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/24-when-someone-dies/9/) — "Passed away" is a gentle way of saying "died"; underneath, it means the person has died and will not come back. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/24-when-someone-dies/10/) — Being dead means the body has stopped working for ever; it is not the same as sleep. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/24-when-someone-dies/11/) — A hospice is a calm place, a bit like a small hospital, that cares for people near the end of their lives; the aim is comfort and no pain, not a cure. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/24-when-someone-dies/12/) — Grown-ups cry when they are very sad, just like children; crying lets out big feelings and does not make them any less able to look after you. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/24-when-someone-dies/13/) — Grief, the sadness after someone dies, comes in waves: fine one day and terrible the next, sometimes set off by a song or a smell. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/24-when-someone-dies/14/) — Grief gets gentler over months and years; playing and laughing during that time does not mean you have forgotten the person. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/24-when-someone-dies/15/) — "At least it was peaceful" means the person died calmly, often without pain; people say it kindly, but "I'm sorry" is always a safer thing to say. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/24-when-someone-dies/16/) — A sudden death happens without warning, from an accident or a heart attack, so there is no chance to say goodbye; it is rare in young healthy people. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/24-when-someone-dies/17/) — When someone dies, neighbours and friends often bring food, so the family does not have to cook; it is a practical way of saying "we care". - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/24-when-someone-dies/18/) — A widow is a woman whose husband has died, and a widower is a man whose wife has died. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/24-when-someone-dies/19/) — Different families and religions believe different things about death: some believe in heaven, some in rebirth, and some that life simply ends. - ← previous: [When Grandma and Grandad need more help](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/23-when-grandma-and-grandad-need-more-help/) - next →: [Funerals and remembering](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/25-funerals-and-remembering/) - ↑ back to [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/)