--- title: Knowing that someone will die soon can bring grief early; "terminall… — When someone dies: guilt, numbness and waves of… · tree and pragmatics description: Knowing that someone will die soon can bring grief early; "terminally ill" means ill and not going to get better, and fearing that other family members will die too is common and does not make it happen. Who acts: someone, Knowing, ill, other family members. 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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, Knowing, ill, other family members), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:reflection:001-when-someone-dies-guilt-numbness-and-waves-of-grief.lesson:18 # text = Knowing that someone will die soon can bring grief early; "terminally ill" means ill and not going to get better, and fearing that other family members will die too is common and does not make it happen. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = reflection # lesson = 001-when-someone-dies-guilt-numbness-and-waves-of-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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Knowing know VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 csubj _ _ 2 that that SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 3 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 5 nsubj _ _ 4 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 die die VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 ccomp _ _ 6 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 5 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advmod 7 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:parataxis 9 grief grief NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 10 early early ADV RB Degree=Pos 8 advmod _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 " " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 13 terminally terminally ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 nsubj _ _ 15 " " PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ 16 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 17 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 xcomp _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 20 going go VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 17 conj _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 23 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 22 xcomp _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 fearing fear VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 35 csubj _ _ 27 that that SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 28 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 29 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 members member NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 31 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 die die VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 ccomp _ _ 33 too too ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 34 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 35 common common ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 ccomp _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 37 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 38 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 39 advmod _ _ 39 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 conj _ _ 40 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 obj _ _ 41 happen happen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 39 xcomp _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **know** | gerund | | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **die** | future | someone | | | | | soon *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 3 | **bring** | can | Knowing | grief | | | | early *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent grief=Theme | | 4 | **mean** | present | ill | | | | | ill *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **not** **go** | gerund | ill *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **get** | to-infinitive | ill *not said here* | | | | | good *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **fear** | gerund | | | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 8 | **die** | future | other family members | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 9 | **is** | present | fearing | | | | | common *property* | tree rules | | 10 | **not** **make** | present · do-support | fearing *not said here* | Grief | | | | | tree rules | | 11 | **not** **happen** | infinitive | Grief *not said here* | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:reflection:001-when-someone-dies-guilt-numbness-and-waves-of-grief.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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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. 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