--- title: Dead is not asleep: a sleeping cat still breathes and will wake up,… — Why living things die, and the circle of life in… · tree and pragmatics description: Dead is not asleep: a sleeping cat still breathes and will wake up, but a dead bee on the windowsill will never move again, however gently Jayden pokes it. Who acts: Dead, sleeping cat, dead bee, Jayden. 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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 (Dead, sleeping cat, dead bee, Jayden), 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:1 # text = Dead is not asleep: a sleeping cat still breathes and will wake up, but a dead bee on the windowsill will never move again, however gently Jayden pokes it. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 asleep asleep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 sleeping sleeping NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 9 still still ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 breathes breathe VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 wake wake VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 14 up up ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 bee bee NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 20 on on ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 windowsill windowsill NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 23 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 25 move move VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj 26 again again ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 however however ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 29 gently gently ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 30 Jayden Jayden PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 pokes poke VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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** **is** | present | Dead | | | | | asleep *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **breathe** | present | a sleeping cat | | | | still | | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **wake up** | future | a sleeping cat *not said here* | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **not** **move** | future | a dead bee on the windowsill | | | | again | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **poke** | present | Jayden | bee | | | | gently, however *property* | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=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:religion-ethics:053-why-living-things-die-and-the-circle-of-life.lesson:1`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-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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