--- title: "Flatlined" means died or the heart stopped, because the heart monit… — Soft words for hard things: death and dying, ill… · tree and pragmatics description: "Flatlined" means died or the heart stopped, because the heart monitor shows a flat line; a business can also flatline. Who acts: heart, heart monitor, business. 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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 (heart, heart monitor, business), 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:21 # text = "Flatlined" means died or the heart stopped, because the heart monitor shows a flat line; a business can also flatline. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Flatlined flatline VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 nsubj _ _ 3 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 4 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 ccomp _ _ 6 or or CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=5:cc 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 stopped stop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 because because SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 monitor monitor NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 flat flat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 line line NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 business business NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 22 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 23 also also ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 flatline flatline VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 conj _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5: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 | **flatline** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **die** | past | | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 4 | **stop** | past | the heart | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 5 | **show** | present | the heart monitor | a flat line | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent line=Recipient | | 6 | **flatline** | can | a business | | | | | | tree rules | 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:21`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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/). - ← previous: [Soft words for hard things: death and…, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/3-death-and-feeling-poorly/20/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: death and…, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/3-death-and-feeling-poorly/22/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/3-death-and-feeling-poorly/)