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title: Families plan ahead the way people pack an umbrella: parents choose… — Bedtime fears: «Will you die, Mum?» and «Will I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Families plan ahead the way people pack an umbrella: parents choose who would look after their children if something happened, and Grandad saying «you'll get my stamp collection» means he is planning, not that he is dying soon. Who acts: Families, people, parents, something. A sentence of the lesson
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# Bedtime fears: «Will you die, Mum?» and «Will I die?», sentence 3

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Families plan ahead the way people pack an umbrella: parents choose who would look after their children if something happened, and Grandad saying «you'll get my stamp collection» means he is planning, not that he is dying soon.

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**Who acts:** Families, people, parents, something, Grandad, you · **What happens:** plan, pack, choose, look, happen, say · **To what, where:** way, umbrella, stamp collection · **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 (Families, people, parents, something), 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:3
# text = Families plan ahead the way people pack an umbrella: parents choose who would look after their children if something happened, and Grandad saying «you'll get my stamp collection» means he is planning, not that he is dying soon.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	plan	plan	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	ahead	ahead	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:det
5	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	pack	pack	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	umbrella	umbrella	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	choose	choose	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
14	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
16	after	after	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
19	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	21	nsubj	_	_
21	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=12:cc
24	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=34:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
25	saying	say	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	acl	_	_
26	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	ccomp	_	_
30	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
31	stamp	stamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	collection	collection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
33	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=34:punct
34	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
35	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
36	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	planning	plan	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	34	ccomp	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
39	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	43	advmod	_	_
40	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
41	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
42	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
43	dying	die	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	37	conj	_	_
44	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	43	advmod	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **plan** | present | Families | the way |  |  |  | ahead *property* | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **pack** | present | people | a umbrella |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent umbrella=Theme |
| 3 | **choose** | present | parents |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **look** | would |  |  |  |  | after people's children |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **happen** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | something |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Grandad *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 7 | **get** *in a quote* | future | you | my stamp collection |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer collection=Stimulus |
| 8 | **mean** | present | Grandad |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 9 | **plan** | present · progressive | Grandad |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 10 | **not** **die** | present · progressive | Grandad |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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.

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

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