--- title: For soldiers, words like "the fallen" and "made the ultimate sacrifi… — Soft words for hard things: death and dying, ill… · tree and pragmatics description: For soldiers, words like "the fallen" and "made the ultimate sacrifice" show respect for those who died in war. Who acts: words. 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 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/3-death-and-feeling-poorly/2/) [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/) / [Euphemisms](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/) / [Soft words for hard things: death and…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/3-death-and-feeling-poorly/) / 2 # Soft words for hard things: death and dying, illness and the body, sentence 2 For soldiers, words like "the fallen" and "made the ultimate sacrifice" show respect for those who died in war. **Who acts:** words · **What happens:** make, show, die · **To what, where:** ultimate sacrifice, respect · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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: who acts (words), 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:2 # text = For soldiers, words like "the fallen" and "made the ultimate sacrifice" show respect for those who died in war. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2 1 For for ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 soldiers soldier NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 4 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 5 like like ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 fallen fall NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 9 " " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ _ 12 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 ultimate ultimate ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 sacrifice sacrifice NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 16 " " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct 17 show show VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 18 respect respect NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 19 for for ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 those that PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 18 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:obl 21 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 22 nsubj _ _ 22 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl:relcl _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 war war NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** *in a quote* | past | words like the fallen *not said here* | the ultimate sacrifice | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sacrifice=Product | | 2 | **show** | present | words like the fallen | respect | | | | for soldiers; for those | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent respect=Recipient | | 3 | **die** | past | | | | | | in war | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in war=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:euphemisms:003-death-and-feeling-poorly.lesson:2`. **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, 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…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/3-death-and-feeling-poorly/1/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: death and…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/3-death-and-feeling-poorly/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/3-death-and-feeling-poorly/)