--- title: A sudden death happens without warning, from an accident or a heart… — When someone dies · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: sudden death, chance. A sentence of the lesson «When someone dies» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tre --- [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/16/) [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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/24-when-someone-dies/) / 16 # When someone dies, sentence 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. **Who acts:** sudden death, chance · **What happens:** happen, be, say · **To what, where:** accident, goodbye · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «When someone dies» of the adult life 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 (sudden death, chance), 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:16 # text = 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. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×3 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 sudden sudden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 happens happen VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 without without ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 warning warn NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 from from ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 accident accident NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obj 11 or or CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 attack attack NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 so so ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 17 there there PRON EX _ 18 expl _ _ 18 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 19 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 20 det _ _ 20 chance chance NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 acl _ _ 23 goodbye goodbye NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:expl 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 27 rare rare ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 28 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 30 healthy healthy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **happen** | present | a sudden death | | | a accident or a heart attack | | without warning | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **be** | present | no chance | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | no chance *not said here* | goodbye | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent goodbye=Topic | | 4 | **is** | present | chance | | | | | in young healthy people; rare *property* | 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:16`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [When someone dies, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/24-when-someone-dies/15/) - next →: [When someone dies, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/24-when-someone-dies/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/24-when-someone-dies/)