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title: "Made the ultimate sacrifice" means died in war while serving one's… — Soft words for hard things: death and dying, ill… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Made the ultimate sacrifice" means died in war while serving one's country. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: death and dying, illness and the body» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Soft words for hard things: death and dying, illness and the body, sentence 16

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"Made the ultimate sacrifice" means died in war while serving one's country.

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**What happens:** make, mean, die, serve · **To what, where:** ultimate sacrifice, country · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: death and dying, illness and the body» of the euphemisms 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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:euphemisms:003-death-and-feeling-poorly.lesson:16
# text = "Made the ultimate sacrifice" means died in war while serving one's country.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = euphemisms
# lesson = 003-death-and-feeling-poorly.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 ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	nsubj	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	ultimate	ultimate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	sacrifice	sacrifice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct
7	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	serving	serve	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
13	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** *in a quote* | past |  | the ultimate sacrifice |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sacrifice=Product |
| 2 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **die** | past |  |  |  |  |  | in war | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in war=Attribute |
| 4 | **serve** | gerund |  | one's country |  |  |  |  | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Attribute |

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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:euphemisms:003-death-and-feeling-poorly.lesson:16`.

**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 ×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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