--- title: When doctors say someone is dying, the illness cannot be cured and t… — When someone dies · tree and pragmatics description: When doctors say someone is dying, the illness cannot be cured and the body is slowly stopping; they can often guess roughly how long is left. Who acts: doctors, someone, body. 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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 (doctors, someone, body), 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:8 # text = When doctors say someone is dying, the illness cannot be cured and the body is slowly stopping; they can often guess roughly how long is left. # 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 ×1 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 2 doctors doctor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 4 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 6 nsubj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 dying die VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 ccomp _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 illness illness NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj:pass _ _ 10 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 11 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 12 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 cured cure VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 stopping stop VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 conj _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 21 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 22 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 23 often often ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 guess guess VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:conj 25 roughly roughly ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 26 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 27 advmod _ _ 27 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 29 advmod _ _ 28 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux:pass _ _ 29 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 ccomp _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | doctors | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **die** | present · progressive | someone | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 3 | **not** **cure** | can · passive | | the illness | | | | | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Source | | 4 | **stop** | present · progressive | the body | | | | | slowly *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 5 | **guess** | can | doctors *= doctor* | | | | | often *property* | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 6 | **leave** | present · passive | | | | | | long *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V» | 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:8`. **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 ×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, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/24-when-someone-dies/7/) - next →: [When someone dies, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/24-when-someone-dies/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/24-when-someone-dies/)