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title: Fears often grow after a death: Lily, whose mum died, gets scared ev… — Bedtime fears: «Will you die, Mum?» and «Will I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Fears often grow after a death: Lily, whose mum died, gets scared every time her dad coughs; but most people live long lives, and her dad can tell her how he looks after his health. Who acts: Fears, mum, Lily, dad. A sentence of the lesson «Bedtime fears: «Will you die, Mum?» and «Will I die?»» of t
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# Bedtime fears: «Will you die, Mum?» and «Will I die?», sentence 2

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Fears often grow after a death: Lily, whose mum died, gets scared every time her dad coughs; but most people live long lives, and her dad can tell her how he looks after his health.

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**Who acts:** Fears, mum, Lily, dad, most people · **What happens:** grow, die, get, cough, live, tell · **To what, where:** time, long lives, Mum · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Bedtime fears: «Will you die, Mum?» and «Will I die?»» 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 (Fears, mum, Lily, dad), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:070-bedtime-fears-will-you-die-mum-and-will-i-die.lesson:2
# text = Fears often grow after a death: Lily, whose mum died, gets scared every time her dad coughs; but most people live long lives, and her dad can tell her how he looks after his health.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 070-bedtime-fears-will-you-die-mum-and-will-i-die.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Fears	fear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	often	often	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	after	after	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Lily	Lily	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
15	scared	scared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
16	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	coughs	cough	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	24	amod	_	_
24	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
26	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	lives	life	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
30	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
32	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
34	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	iobj	_	_
35	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	37	advmod	_	_
36	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	advcl	_	_
38	after	after	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	health	health	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
41	.	.	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** | present | Fears |  |  |  | after a death | often *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **die** | past | mum |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **get** | present | Lily |  |  |  |  | scared *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **cough** | present | Mum's dad | every time *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent time=Theme |
| 5 | **live** | present | most people | long lives |  |  |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme life=Location |
| 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | can | Mum's dad |  | Mum |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |
| 7 | **look** | present | dad |  |  |  | after dad's health |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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): 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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