--- title: A will is a legal paper someone writes while alive, saying who gets… — What people leave behind · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: will, someone, Pets, person. A sentence of the lesson «What people leave behind» of the adult life course of Mova's pr --- [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/5/) [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/) / 5 # What people leave behind, sentence 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. **Who acts:** will, someone, Pets, person · **What happens:** be, write, say, get, die, carry out · **To what, where:** legal paper, money, person · **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 (will, someone, Pets, 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:5 # text = 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. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 will will NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 legal legal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 paper paper NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 8 nsubj _ _ 8 writes write VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 9 while while SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 10 alive alive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:xcomp 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advcl 13 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 14 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 ccomp _ _ 15 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 belongings belonging NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 conj _ _ 21 after after SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 22 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 die die VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj:pass _ _ 27 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 28 carries carry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 acl:relcl _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 out out ADP RP _ 28 compound:prt _ _ 31 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux:pass _ _ 32 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 conj _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 executor executor NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 xcomp _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a will | a legal paper | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **write** | present | someone | a legal paper *not said here* | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paper=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | a will *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **get** | present | | Pets's money and house and belongings | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer money=Stimulus | | 5 | **die** | present | Pets *= pet* | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 6 | **carry out** | present | the person | person | | | | | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | | 7 | **call** | present · passive | | the person | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | 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:5`. **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, R7-rel-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, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/26-what-people-leave-behind/3/) - next →: [What people leave behind, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/26-what-people-leave-behind/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/26-what-people-leave-behind/)