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title: Most parents live to be very old, long after their children are grow… — Bedtime fears: «Will you die, Mum?» and «Will I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Most parents live to be very old, long after their children are grown up. Who acts: Most parents. 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 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Bedtime fears: «Will you die, Mum?» and «Will I die?», sentence 7

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Most parents live to be very old, long after their children are grown up.

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

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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 (Most parents), 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:7
# text = Most parents live to be very old, long after their children are grown up.
# 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): no change
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	amod	_	_
2	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
10	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	.	.	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 | **live** | present | Most parents |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive | Most parents *not said here* |  |  |  |  | old *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **grow up** | present · passive |  | parents's children |  |  |  | long *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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**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:070-bedtime-fears-will-you-die-mum-and-will-i-die.lesson:7`.

**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): no change. **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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