--- title: Death is not sleep: a sleeping animal still breathes and has a heart… — Why living things die, and the circle of life in… · tree and pragmatics description: Death is not sleep: a sleeping animal still breathes and has a heartbeat, and it will wake. Who acts: Death, sleeping animal. A sentence of the lesson «Why living things die, and the circle of life in nature» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pra --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/53-why-living-things-die-and-the-circle-of-life/6/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/) / [Why living things die, and the circle…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/53-why-living-things-die-and-the-circle-of-life/) / 6 # Why living things die, and the circle of life in nature, sentence 6 Death is not sleep: a sleeping animal still breathes and has a heartbeat, and it will wake. **Who acts:** Death, sleeping animal · **What happens:** not be, sleep, breathe, have, wake · **To what, where:** sleep, heartbeat This is a sentence of the lesson «Why living things die, and the circle of life in nature» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Death, sleeping animal), 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:6 # text = Death is not sleep: a sleeping animal still breathes and has a heartbeat, and it will wake. # 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 1 Death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 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 sleep sleep NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 sleeping sleep VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 amod _ _ 8 animal animal 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 _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 heartbeat heartbeat NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 wake wake VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=12:conj 20 . . 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 a** | present | Death | sleep | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **sleep** | gerund | | | | | | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **breathe** | present | a sleeping animal | | | | still | | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **have** | present | a sleeping animal *not said here* | a heartbeat | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heartbeat=Patient | | 5 | **wake** | future | death | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | 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:6`. **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. **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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