--- title: Picture Ellie at breakfast: in the night her mum got a phone call, a… — When a grandparent dies · tree and pragmatics description: Picture Ellie at breakfast: in the night her mum got a phone call, and now she says, «Grandad died in hospital in his sleep. Who acts: you, mum, Grandad. 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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 (you, mum, Grandad), 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:1 # text = Picture Ellie at breakfast: in the night her mum got a phone call, and now she says, «Grandad died in hospital in his sleep. # 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2 1 Picture picture VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 Ellie Ellie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 3 at at ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 breakfast breakfast NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 1 punct _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 9 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 phone phone NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 call call NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 19 advmod _ _ 18 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct 21 « « PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ _ 22 Grandad Grandad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 ccomp _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 hospital hospital NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 sleep sleep NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:nmod 29 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | Ellie | | breakfast | | | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent ellie=Theme | | 2 | **get** | past | Ellie's mum | a phone call | | | night | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer call=Stimulus | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | mum | | | | now | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **die** *in a quote* | past | Grandad | | | | | in Grandad's sleep; in hospital | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in hospital=Attribute | | 5 | **sleep** *in a quote* | | Grandad | | | | | | nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:religion-ethics:058-when-a-grandparent-dies.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, R6-punct-agree ×2. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [When a grandparent dies, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/58-when-a-grandparent-dies/0/) - next →: [When a grandparent dies, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/58-when-a-grandparent-dies/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/58-when-a-grandparent-dies/)