--- title: Grown-ups often use soft words for it, like "passed away", "we lost… — When someone dies · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: Grown ups, we, thing, plain word. 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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 (Grown ups, we, thing, plain word), 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:2 # text = 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. # 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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 amod _ _ 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ _ 3 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 4 often often ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 like like ADP IN _ 13 mark _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 12 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 13 passed pass VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 14 away away ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 15 " " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 17 " " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 18 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 lost lose VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:conj 20 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 " " PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 22 or or CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 23 " " PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 24 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 's have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 gone go VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 19 parataxis _ _ 27 " " PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 29 because because SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 plain plain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 33 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 34 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 advcl _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 xcomp _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=narrator, polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **use** | present | Grown ups | soft words | | | | for body; often *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **pass away** *in a quote* | past | | | | | | away *property* | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **lose** *in a quote* | past | we | person | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality | | 5 | **go** *in a quote* | present · perfect | thing | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **is** | present | the plain word | | | | | hard *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | the plain word *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:2`. **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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/24-when-someone-dies/1/) - next →: [When someone dies, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/24-when-someone-dies/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/24-when-someone-dies/)