--- title: What people leave behind — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «What people leave behind», a lesson of the adult life course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: When someone dies, their love and memories stay, but so do their things: money, a house, a car, a ring, a drawer full of old photos. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/26-what-people-leave-behind/) [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/) / What people leave behind # What people leave behind Lesson 26 of the adult life course of Mova's primary school: 16 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/adult-life/26-what-people-leave-behind/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/26-what-people-leave-behind/0/) — When someone dies, their love and memories stay, but so do their things: money, a house, a car, a ring, a drawer full of old photos. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/26-what-people-leave-behind/1/) — Grown-ups then have a long, tiring job: following the dead person's wishes, filling in forms, sorting the house and deciding who keeps what. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/26-what-people-leave-behind/2/) — Picture a Saturday in Leeds: Mum, Auntie Sue and you are in Nan's kitchen with cardboard boxes, wrapping her teacups in newspaper, laughing at her old hats and then suddenly crying over a birthday card she kept. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/26-what-people-leave-behind/3/) — Pets leave a gap too: when the vet helps a very old dog die gently, the family grieves and often holds a small funeral in the garden. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/26-what-people-leave-behind/5/) — A will is a legal paper someone writes while alive, saying who gets their money, house and belongings after they die; the person who carries it out is called the executor. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/26-what-people-leave-behind/6/) — Probate is the official permission from a court to deal with a dead person's money and property, and until it comes the house usually cannot be sold; it can take months. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/26-what-people-leave-behind/7/) — Families sometimes argue over who gets what after a death, especially a house, because grief makes people touchy and old quarrels come back. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/26-what-people-leave-behind/8/) — Such family fights can last a long time and may involve lawyers, but they often calm down in the end, and a child never has to take a side. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/26-what-people-leave-behind/9/) — Money left to a child is usually kept in a savings account until they are eighteen, so it can help with something important later. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/26-what-people-leave-behind/10/) — Clearing out a house after a death means sorting the person's things to keep, give to family, sell or give away; it is slow, sad work because every object holds memories. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/26-what-people-leave-behind/11/) — A pet "put to sleep" was given a painless injection by the vet so it died peacefully, because it was very ill or very old; it will not wake up. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/26-what-people-leave-behind/12/) — Owners choose to have a pet put to sleep to stop it suffering, and it is one of the hardest decisions a family makes. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/26-what-people-leave-behind/13/) — Small pets are often buried in the garden, in a shoebox or wrapped in a cloth, with a stone or a cross on top, as a small funeral. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/26-what-people-leave-behind/14/) — A keepsake is something that belonged to someone who died, kept to feel close to them, such as a ring, a jumper or a recipe book. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/26-what-people-leave-behind/15/) — A keepsake can be very precious even when it is worth little money, so you should ask before touching it. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/26-what-people-leave-behind/17/) — Having life insurance is a sensible plan made by many parents; it does not mean anyone expects to die soon. - ← previous: [Funerals and remembering](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/25-funerals-and-remembering/) - next →: [Coffee, tea, wine and the pub](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/27-coffee-tea-wine-and-the-pub/) - ↑ back to [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/)