--- title: Grown-ups then have a long, tiring job: following the dead person's… — What people leave behind · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: Grown, dead person. 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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, dead person), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:026-what-people-leave-behind.lesson:1 # text = 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. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 026-what-people-leave-behind.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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Grown grow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ _ 3 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 flat _ _ 4 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 5 advmod _ _ 5 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:det 7 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 tiring tire ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 job job NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 12 following follow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 appos _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod:poss _ _ 16 's 's PART POS _ 15 case _ _ 17 wishes wish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 filling fill VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 conj _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 forms form NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 sorting sort VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 conj _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 deciding decide VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 conj _ _ 28 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 29 nsubj _ _ 29 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 ccomp _ _ 30 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 29 obj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | Grown | a long tiring job | | | then | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Patient | | 2 | **follow** | gerund | | the dead person's wishes | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Theme | | 3 | **fill** | gerund | | | | forms | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **sort** | gerund | | the house | | | | | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme | | 5 | **decide** | gerund | | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **keep** | present | | | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme | | 7 | **wish** | | the dead person | | | | | | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=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:026-what-people-leave-behind.lesson:1`. **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): R5-strong ×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: [What people leave behind, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/26-what-people-leave-behind/0/) - next →: [What people leave behind, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/26-what-people-leave-behind/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/26-what-people-leave-behind/)