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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 (living thing, body, heart, breathing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:053-why-living-things-die-and-the-circle-of-life.lesson:0 # text = Every living thing, a sunflower, a bee, a fox or a person, has a body that wears out or gets badly hurt or ill in the end; when the body stops working completely, the heart stops, breathing stops and the brain stops, and it does not start again. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 053-why-living-things-die-and-the-circle-of-life.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Every every DET DT PronType=Tot 3 det _ _ 2 living living NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 sunflower sunflower NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 appos _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 bee bee NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 appos _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 appos _ _ 13 or or CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 17 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 21 nsubj _ _ 21 wears wear VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 acl:relcl _ _ 22 out out ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ _ 23 or or CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 gets get AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux:pass _ _ 25 badly badly ADV RB Degree=Pos 26 advmod _ _ 26 hurt hurt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 21 conj _ _ 27 or or CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 conj _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 32 ; ; PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 36 advmod _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 36 stops stop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ _ 37 working work VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 36 xcomp _ _ 38 completely completely ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 39 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ _ 42 stops stop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 conj _ _ 43 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=44:punct 44 breathing breathe NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nsubj _ _ 45 stops stop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 conj _ _ 46 and and CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 nsubj _ _ 49 stops stop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=45:conj 50 , , PUNCT , _ 55 punct _ _ 51 and and CCONJ CC _ 55 cc _ _ 52 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 55 nsubj _ _ 53 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 55 aux _ _ 54 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 55 advmod _ _ 55 start start VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 49 conj _ _ 56 again again ADV RB _ 55 advmod _ _ 57 . . PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | every living thing | a body | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Patient | | 2 | **wear out** | present | a body | | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **hurt** | present · passive | a body *not said here* | | | | | badly *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | | 4 | **stop** | present | the body | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 5 | **work** | gerund | the body *not said here* | | | | | completely *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **stop** | present | the heart | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 7 | **stop** | present | breathing | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 8 | **stop** | present | the brain | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 9 | **not** **start** | present · do-support | brain | | | | again | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | 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:religion-ethics:053-why-living-things-die-and-the-circle-of-life.lesson:0`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-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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