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title: A keepsake is something that belonged to someone who died, kept to f… — What people leave behind · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: keepsake. A sentence of the lesson «What people leave behind» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# What people leave behind, sentence 14

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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.

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**Who acts:** keepsake · **What happens:** be, belong, die, keep, feel · **To what, where:** something

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This is a sentence of the lesson «What people leave behind» 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 (keepsake), 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:14
# text = 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.
# 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
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	keepsake	keepsake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	belonged	belong	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	6	obl	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	22	case	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	fixed	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	jumper	jumper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	recipe	recipe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a keepsake | something |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **belong** | past |  |  |  |  |  | to someone | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **die** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **keep** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **feel** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | close *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:026-what-people-leave-behind.lesson:14`.

**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. **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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