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title: Picture a living room in Melbourne: Dad sits you down and says, "Gra… — When someone dies · tree and pragmatics
description: Picture a living room in Melbourne: Dad sits you down and says, "Grandad is dying. Who acts: you, Dad, Grandad. A sentence of the lesson «When someone dies» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# When someone dies, sentence 3

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Picture a living room in Melbourne: Dad sits you down and says, "Grandad is dying.

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**Who acts:** you, Dad, Grandad · **What happens:** picture, sit down, say, die · **To what, where:** living room, Melbourne, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (you, Dad, Grandad), 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:3
# text = Picture a living room in Melbourne: Dad sits you down and says, "Grandad is dying.
# 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	Picture	picture	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	living	living	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Melbourne	Melbourne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
8	Dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	sits	sit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	down	down	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
16	Grandad	grandad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	dying	die	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	ccomp	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | a living room |  | Melbourne |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent room=Theme |
| 2 | **sit down** | present | Dad | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Dad *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **die** *in a quote* | present · progressive | Grandad |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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.

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**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:3`.

**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/).

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