--- title: When someone dies, neighbours and friends often bring food, so the f… — When someone dies · tree and pragmatics description: 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". Who acts: someone, neighbours, family, food. 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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 (someone, neighbours, family, food), 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:17 # text = 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". # 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): no change 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 3 mark _ _ 2 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 3 nsubj _ _ 3 dies die VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 neighbours neighbour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 8 often often ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 bring bring VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 12 so so ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 15 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 17 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 parataxis _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 cook cook VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 xcomp _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 practical practical ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 parataxis _ _ 26 of of SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 27 saying say VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 25 acl _ _ 28 " " PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ _ 29 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 care care VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 ccomp _ _ 31 " " PUNCT '' _ 30 punct _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **die** | present | someone | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 2 | **bring** | present | neighbours and friends | food | | | | often *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent food=Theme | | 3 | **not** **have** | present · do-support | the family | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **cook** | to-infinitive | the family *not said here* | | | | | | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **is a** | present | food | a practical way | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | a practical way *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **care** *in a quote* | present | we | | | | | | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | 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:17`. **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): no change. **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, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/24-when-someone-dies/16/) - next →: [When someone dies, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/24-when-someone-dies/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/24-when-someone-dies/)