--- title: Having life insurance is a sensible plan made by many parents; it do… — What people leave behind · tree and pragmatics description: Having life insurance is a sensible plan made by many parents; it does not mean anyone expects to die soon. Who acts: Having, it, anyone. 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 every clause. --- [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/17/) [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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/26-what-people-leave-behind/) / 17 # What people leave behind, sentence 17 Having life insurance is a sensible plan made by many parents; it does not mean anyone expects to die soon. **Who acts:** Having, it, anyone · **What happens:** have, be, make, not mean, expect, die · **To what, where:** life insurance, sensible plan · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Having, it, anyone), 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:17 # text = Having life insurance is a sensible plan made by many parents; it does not mean anyone expects to die soon. # 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 Having have VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 csubj _ _ 2 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 insurance insurance NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 sensible sensible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 plan plan NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 acl _ _ 9 by by ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 14 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 15 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 16 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 parataxis _ _ 17 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 18 nsubj _ _ 18 expects expect VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 ccomp _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 die die VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 xcomp _ _ 21 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 20 advmod _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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** | gerund | | life insurance | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insurance=Patient | | 2 | **is a** | present | Having | a sensible plan | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **make** | participle | | a sensible plan *not said here* | | | | by many parents | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 4 | **not** **mean** | present · do-support | it | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **expect** | present | anyone | | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 6 | **die** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | anyone *not said here* | | | | | soon *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | 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:17`. **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, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/26-what-people-leave-behind/15/) - next →: [Coffee, tea, wine and the pub, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/27-coffee-tea-wine-and-the-pub/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/26-what-people-leave-behind/)