--- title: When a grandparent dies, their body has stopped working and they wil… — When a grandparent dies · tree and pragmatics description: When a grandparent dies, their body has stopped working and they will not wake up or come back; it is very sad, and it is never a child's fault, whatever was said or done before. Who acts: grandparent, body, they. 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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 (grandparent, body, they), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:058-when-a-grandparent-dies.lesson:0 # text = When a grandparent dies, their body has stopped working and they will not wake up or come back; it is very sad, and it is never a child's fault, whatever was said or done before. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 058-when-a-grandparent-dies.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 ×2 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 4 mark _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 grandparent grandparent NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 dies die VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 8 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 stopped stop VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 10 working work VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 xcomp _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 12 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 13 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 15 wake wake VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:conj 16 up up ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ _ 17 or or CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 conj _ _ 19 back back ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 23 very very ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 sad sad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 parataxis _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 28 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 29 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 33 advmod _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:det 31 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod:poss _ _ 32 's 's PART POS _ 31 case _ _ 33 fault fault NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 whatever whatever PRON WP PronType=Rel 37 nsubj _ _ 36 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 aux:pass _ _ 37 said say VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 acl:relcl _ _ 38 or or CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 37 conj _ _ 40 before before ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed polarity=neg | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **die** | present | a grandparent | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 2 | **stop** | present · perfect | their body | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **work** | gerund | their body *not said here* | | | | | | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **not** **wake up** | future | they | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **come back** | infinitive | they *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **is** | present | body | | | | | sad *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **not** **is a** | present | body | a child's fault | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · passive | | whatever | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | | 9 | **do** | participle | | | | | | before *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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. 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