--- title: A death often reminds people that life is short and makes them want… — Living well because life is short · tree and pragmatics description: A death often reminds people that life is short and makes them want to spend time on what matters. Who acts: death, life, people. A sentence of the lesson «Living well because life is short» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/76-living-well-because-life-is-short/7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/) / [Living well because life is short](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/76-living-well-because-life-is-short/) / 7 # Living well because life is short, sentence 7 A death often reminds people that life is short and makes them want to spend time on what matters. **Who acts:** death, life, people · **What happens:** remind, be, make, want, spend, matter · **To what, where:** people · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Living well because life is short» 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 (death, life, people), 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:7 # text = A death often reminds people that life is short and makes them want to spend time 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 ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 often often ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 reminds remind VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 that that SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 7 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 9 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 ccomp _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:conj 12 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 want want VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 spend spend VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ _ 16 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 17 on on ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 19 nsubj _ _ 19 matters matter VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 obl _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **remind** *speech: other* | present | a death | | people | | | often *property* | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent people=Recipient | | 2 | **is** | present | life | | | | | short *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **make** | present | a death *not said here* | people | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **want** | infinitive | people *not said here* | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 5 | **spend** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | | | | time | | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **matter** | 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: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): R5-strong ×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/). - ← previous: [Living well because life is short, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/76-living-well-because-life-is-short/6/) - next →: [Living well because life is short, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/76-living-well-because-life-is-short/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/76-living-well-because-life-is-short/)