--- title: Let's go to the seaside this weekend, like Grandad always wanted»: a… — Living well because life is short · tree and pragmatics description: Let's go to the seaside this weekend, like Grandad always wanted»: a death often reminds people that life does not last for ever, and makes them want to spend it on what matters. Who acts: you, 's, Grandad, death. 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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, 's, Grandad, death), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:076-living-well-because-life-is-short.lesson:1 # text = Let's go to the seaside this weekend, like Grandad always wanted»: a death often reminds people that life does not last for ever, and makes them want to spend it on what matters. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 076-living-well-because-life-is-short.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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 's us PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ _ 3 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 xcomp _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 seaside seaside NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 8 det _ _ 8 weekend weekend NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:obl:unmarked 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 like like SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 11 Grandad Grandad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 12 always always ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 wanted want VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:parataxis 14 » » PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 15 : : PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 18 often often ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 reminds remind VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 20 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 21 that that SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 22 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 23 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 25 last last VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 ccomp _ _ 26 for for ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 25 obl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 31 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 want want VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 xcomp _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 spend spend VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 xcomp _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ _ 36 on on ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 38 nsubj _ _ 38 matters matter VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 obl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: suggest - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | 's | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **go** | infinitive | 's *not said here* | | | the seaside | weekend | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to seaside=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **want** | past | Grandad | | | | | always *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 4 | **remind** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present | a death | | people | | | often *property* | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient S»: agent=Agent people=Recipient clause=Topic | | 5 | **not** **last** *in a quote* | present · do-support | life | | | | | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **make** *in a quote* | present | a death *not said here* | people | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **want** *in a quote* | infinitive | people *not said here* | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 8 | **spend** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | life | | | | | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Asset | | 9 | **matter** *in a quote* | present | | | | | | | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | 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:076-living-well-because-life-is-short.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 ×2, R8-pos-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: [Is it fair? 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