--- title: Clearing out a house after a death means sorting the person's things… — What people leave behind · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: death, object. 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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 (death, object), 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:10 # text = 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. # 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): no change 1 Clearing clear VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 csubj _ _ 2 out out ADP RP _ 1 compound:prt _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 after after SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 sorting sort VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 ccomp _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod:poss _ _ 12 's 's PART POS _ 11 case _ _ 13 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 advcl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 conj _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 sell sell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 advcl _ _ 22 or or CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 conj _ _ 24 away away ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 28 slow slow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 conj _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 sad sad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 32 because because SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 33 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 34 det _ _ 34 object object NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 35 holds hold VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl _ _ 36 memories memory NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **clear out** | gerund | | a house | | | | | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent house=Source | | 2 | **mean** | present | a death | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **sort** | gerund | | the person's things | | | | | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | | 4 | **keep** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **give** | infinitive | | | family | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to family=Recipient | | 6 | **sell** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **give away** | infinitive | | | | | | away *property* | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **is** | present | death | | | | | sad work *obl*; slow *property* | tree rules | | 9 | **hold** | present | every object | memories | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent memory=Theme | 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:10`. **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/). - ← previous: [What people leave behind, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/26-what-people-leave-behind/9/) - next →: [What people leave behind, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/26-what-people-leave-behind/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/26-what-people-leave-behind/)