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title: Most children grow up and live long lives; it is rare for a child to… — Illness, hospitals and children who are very ill · tree and pragmatics
description: Most children grow up and live long lives; it is rare for a child to die of illness. Who acts: Most children. A sentence of the lesson «Illness, hospitals and children who are very ill» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Illness, hospitals and children who are very ill, sentence 11

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Most children grow up and live long lives; it is rare for a child to die of illness.

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**Who acts:** Most children · **What happens:** grow up, live, be, die · **To what, where:** long lives

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Illness, hospitals and children who are very ill» 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 (Most children), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:059-illness-hospitals-and-children-who-are-very-ill.lesson:11
# text = Most children grow up and live long lives; it is rare for a child to die of illness.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 059-illness-hospitals-and-children-who-are-very-ill.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	amod	_	_
2	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	lives	life	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	expl	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	rare	rare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	illness	illness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow up** | present | Most children |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **live** | present | Most children *not said here* | long lives |  |  |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme life=Location |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | for a child; rare *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **die** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | of illness | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of illness=Causer |

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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.

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**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): R7-rel-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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