--- title: "At least it was peaceful" means the person died calmly, often witho… — When someone dies · tree and pragmatics description: "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. Who acts: grief, person, people, Grown ups. 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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 (grief, person, people, Grown ups), 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:15 # text = "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. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 2 At at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 least least ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 6 obl _ _ 4 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 peaceful peaceful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:csubj 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 8 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 ccomp _ _ 12 calmly calmly ADV RB Degree=Pos 11 advmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 14 often often ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 15 without without ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 pain pain NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 kindly kindly ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct 23 but but CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 24 " " PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ _ 25 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 26 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 27 sorry sorry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 csubj _ _ 28 " " PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 30 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 33 advmod _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 safer safe ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 33 amod _ _ 33 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 ccomp _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 acl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 8 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** *in a quote* | past | grief | | | least | | peaceful *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **die** | past | the person | | | | | without pain; calmly *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | people | grief | | | | kindly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic | | 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Grown ups *= ups* | | | | | sorry *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **is a** | present | | a safer thing | | | | always *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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](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:15`. **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. **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, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/24-when-someone-dies/14/) - next →: [When someone dies, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/24-when-someone-dies/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/24-when-someone-dies/)