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title: Thoughts and wishes cannot make anyone die. — Moving, new schools, change and grief · tree and pragmatics
description: Thoughts and wishes cannot make anyone die. Who acts: Thoughts. A sentence of the lesson «Moving, new schools, change and grief» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Moving, new schools, change and grief, sentence 14

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Thoughts and wishes cannot make anyone die.

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**Who acts:** Thoughts · **What happens:** not make, not die · **To what, where:** anyone

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Moving, new schools, change and grief» of the everyday 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 (Thoughts), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:097-moving-change-and-grief.lesson:14
# text = Thoughts and wishes cannot make anyone die.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 097-moving-change-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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Thoughts	thought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	wishes	wish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	8	obj	_	_
8	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:NN:VerbForm=Inf
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **make** | can | Thoughts and wishes |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **die** | infinitive | Thoughts and wishes *not said here* | anyone |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:everyday:097-moving-change-and-grief.lesson:14`.

**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): 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/).

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