--- title: When someone dies, their body has stopped working forever and they c… — Family changes and grief · tree and pragmatics description: When someone dies, their body has stopped working forever and they cannot come back; death is not like sleep, and sleeping does not make anyone die. Who acts: someone, body, parents, death. 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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 (someone, body, parents, death), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:214-family-changes-and-grief.lesson:3 # text = When someone dies, their body has stopped working forever and they cannot come back; death is not like sleep, and sleeping does not make anyone die. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 214-family-changes-and-grief.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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 3 mark _ _ 2 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 3 nsubj _ _ 3 dies die VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 7 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 stopped stop VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 9 working work VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 xcomp _ _ 10 forever forever ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 12 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 13 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 15 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 16 back back ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 18 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 20 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 22 advmod _ _ 21 like like ADP IN _ 22 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 22 sleep sleep NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 parataxis _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 25 sleeping sleeping NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=28:nsubj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 27 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 28 advmod _ _ 28 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:parataxis 29 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 30 obj _ _ 30 die die VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **die** | present | someone | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 2 | **stop** | present · perfect | parents's body | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **work** | gerund | parents's body *not said here* | | | | | forever *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **not** **come back** | can | parents *= parent* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **not** **is** | present | death | | | | | like sleep | tree rules | | 6 | **not** **make** | present · do-support | sleeping | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **not** **die** | infinitive | sleeping *not said here* | anyone | | | | | 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:everyday:214-family-changes-and-grief.lesson:3`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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: [Family changes and grief, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/214-family-changes-and-grief/2/) - next →: [Family changes and grief, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/214-family-changes-and-grief/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/214-family-changes-and-grief/)