--- title: Walt Disney was not frozen; he was cremated (his body was burned to… — Explorers, scientists and inventors · tree and pragmatics description: Walt Disney was not frozen; he was cremated (his body was burned to ashes, as many families choose) after he died in 1966. Who acts: many families, Walt. 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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 (many families, Walt), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:020-explorers-scientists-and-inventors.lesson:18 # text = Walt Disney was not frozen; he was cremated (his body was burned to ashes, as many families choose) after he died in 1966. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 020-explorers-scientists-and-inventors.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Walt Walt PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 Disney Disney PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 frozen freeze VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 ; ; PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj:pass _ _ 8 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 cremated cremate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:advcl 10 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 14 punct _ _ 11 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj:pass _ _ 13 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux:pass _ _ 14 burned burn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 parataxis _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 ashes ash NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 as as SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 19 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 21 choose choose VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ _ 22 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 14 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct 23 after after SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 1966 1966 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 25 obl _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **freeze** | past · passive | | Walt | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result | | 2 | **cremate** | past · passive | | Walt | | | | | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | | 3 | **burn** | past · passive | | Walt's body | | | | to ashes | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | | 4 | **choose** | present | many families | | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **die** | past | Walt | | | | | in 1966 | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1966=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:myths:020-explorers-scientists-and-inventors.lesson:18`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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: [Explorers, scientists and inventors, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/20-explorers-scientists-and-inventors/17/) - next →: [Explorers, scientists and inventors, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/20-explorers-scientists-and-inventors/19/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/20-explorers-scientists-and-inventors/)