--- title: A hospice is a calm place, a bit like a small hospital, that cares f… — When someone dies · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: hospice, calm place, aim. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hospice, calm place, aim), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:024-when-someone-dies.lesson:11 # text = 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. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 024-when-someone-dies.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 hospice hospice NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 calm calm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 appos _ _ 10 like like ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 hospital hospital NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nmod 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 16 cares care VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 17 for for ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 19 near near ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 lives life NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 aim aim NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 28 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 29 comfort comfort NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 parataxis _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 32 det _ _ 32 pain pain NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 36 advmod _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 cure cure NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a hospice | a calm place | | | | like a small hospital | tree rules | | 2 | **care** | present | a calm place | | | | | for people near the end of people's lives | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for people=Theme | | 3 | **is a** | present | the aim | comfort and no pain and a cure | | | | | tree rules | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:adult-life:024-when-someone-dies.lesson:11`. **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): R5-strong ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [When someone dies, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/24-when-someone-dies/10/) - next →: [When someone dies, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/24-when-someone-dies/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/24-when-someone-dies/)