--- title: People near the end of life may still hear voices, so it is fine to… — Being in hospital, and a sick parent or grandpar… · tree and pragmatics description: People near the end of life may still hear voices, so it is fine to talk to them, and it is fine to cry. Who acts: People, it. 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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 (People, it), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:medicine:033-being-in-hospital-and-a-sick-parent-or-grandparent.lesson:11 # text = People near the end of life may still hear voices, so it is fine to talk to them, and it is fine to cry. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = medicine # lesson = 033-being-in-hospital-and-a-sick-parent-or-grandparent.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 ×3 1 People people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 2 near near ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 7 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 8 still still ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 10 voices voice NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 so so ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 expl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:nsubj 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 15 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 talk talk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:xcomp 18 to to ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 24 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 conj _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 cry cry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: evaluate - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: changed polarity=pos, act=evaluate | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hear** | may | People near the end of life | voices | | | still | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus | | 2 | **is** | present | | | | | | fine *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **talk** | to-infinitive | | | people | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to they=Co-Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | it | | | | | fine *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **cry** *speech: express* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:medicine:033-being-in-hospital-and-a-sick-parent-or-grandparent.lesson:11`. **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 ×3. **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. 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