--- title: Death means the body has stopped working forever, so the person or a… — Moving, new schools, change and grief · tree and pragmatics description: Death means the body has stopped working forever, so the person or animal cannot come back; it is not like sleep, and thoughts or wishes can never make someone die. Who acts: Death, body, person, thoughts. 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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 (Death, body, person, 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:2 # text = Death means the body has stopped working forever, so the person or animal cannot come back; it is not like sleep, and thoughts or wishes can never make someone 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 stopped stop VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 2 ccomp _ _ 7 working work VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 xcomp _ _ 8 forever forever ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 10 so so ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 13 or or CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 15 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 17 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 18 back back ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 22 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 23 advmod _ _ 23 like like ADP IN _ 24 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 24 sleep sleep NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 27 thoughts thought NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 28 or or CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 wishes wish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 conj _ _ 30 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 31 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 32 advmod _ _ 32 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 33 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 32 obj _ _ 34 die die VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 xcomp _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | Death | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **stop** | present · perfect | the body | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **work** | gerund | the body *not said here* | | | | | forever *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **not** **come back** | can | the person or animal | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is** | present | person | | | | | like sleep | tree rules | | 6 | **not** **make** | can | thoughts or wishes | someone | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **not** **die** | infinitive | someone *not said here* | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=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:everyday:097-moving-change-and-grief.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): R7-rel-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: [Moving, new schools, change and grief, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/97-moving-change-and-grief/1/) - next →: [Moving, new schools, change and grief, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/97-moving-change-and-grief/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/97-moving-change-and-grief/)