--- title: Vivid example: when a teacher says "Sam's nan passed on at the weeke… — Soft words for hard things: death and dying · tree and pragmatics description: Vivid example: when a teacher says "Sam's nan passed on at the weekend", nobody went anywhere; she died, and the teacher chose a gentle word. Who acts: Vivid example, nan, nobody, teacher. 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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 (Vivid example, nan, nobody, teacher), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:euphemisms:001-death-polite-and-joking.lesson:4 # text = Vivid example: when a teacher says "Sam's nan passed on at the weekend", nobody went anywhere; she died, and the teacher chose a gentle word. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = euphemisms # lesson = 001-death-polite-and-joking.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): R6-punct-agree ×2 1 Vivid vivid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 example example NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 4 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 7 advmod _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ _ 9 Sam Sam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod:poss _ _ 10 's 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ 11 nan nan NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 passed pass VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 ccomp _ _ 13 on on ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ _ 14 at at ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 weekend weekend NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 17 " " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 20 nsubj _ _ 20 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 21 anywhere anywhere ADV RB PronType=Ind 20 advmod _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 23 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 ccomp _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 chose choose VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 gentle gentle ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Vivid example | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **pass on** *in a quote* | past | Sam's nan | | | | weekend | | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **go** | past | nobody | | | | | anywhere *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **die** | past | nan | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 5 | **choose** | past | the teacher | a gentle word | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=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:euphemisms:001-death-polite-and-joking.lesson:4`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×2. **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: [Soft words for hard things: death and…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/1-death-polite-and-joking/3/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: death and…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/1-death-polite-and-joking/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/1-death-polite-and-joking/)