--- title: Dying people are still people who enjoy ordinary things: Jasmine ask… — Kindness to the dying and visiting the old · tree and pragmatics description: Dying people are still people who enjoy ordinary things: Jasmine asks Lucy to paint her nails, and Sam's grandad would love to talk about football; families like Ethan's take turns to sit with Grandma so she is never alone. Who acts: Dying people, people, Jasmine, grandad. 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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 (Dying people, people, Jasmine, grandad), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:077-kindness-to-the-dying-and-visiting-the-old.lesson:1 # text = Dying people are still people who enjoy ordinary things: Jasmine asks Lucy to paint her nails, and Sam's grandad would love to talk about football; families like Ethan's take turns to sit with Grandma so she is never alone. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 077-kindness-to-the-dying-and-visiting-the-old.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 Dying die VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 amod _ _ 2 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 still still ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 6 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 7 enjoy enjoy VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 8 ordinary ordinary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 11 Jasmine Jasmine PROPN NNP _ 12 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 12 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 13 Lucy Lucy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 paint paint VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ _ 16 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 nails nail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 20 Sam Sam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nmod:poss _ _ 21 's 's PART POS _ 20 case _ _ 22 grandad grandad NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 23 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 love love VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:parataxis 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 talk talk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ _ 27 about about ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 football football NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 29 ; ; PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 31 like like SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 32 Ethan Ethan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nmod:poss _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=34:nmod:poss 33 's 's PART POS _ 32 case _ _ 34 take take VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 acl:relcl _ _ 35 turns turn NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obj _ _ 36 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 37 sit sit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 advcl _ _ 38 with with ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 Grandma Grandma PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=37:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 40 so so ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 41 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 42 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 44 cop _ _ 43 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 44 advmod _ _ 44 alone alone ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **die** | gerund | | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 2 | **is a** | present | Dying people | people and Ethan's families | | | still | | tree rules | | 3 | **enjoy** | present | people and Ethan's families | ordinary things | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus | | 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | Jasmine | | Lucy | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent lucy=Recipient clause=Topic | | 5 | **paint** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Jasmine *not said here* | Jasmine's nails | | | | | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent nail=Destination | | 6 | **love** | would | Sam's grandad | | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 7 | **talk** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Sam's grandad *not said here* | | | | | about football | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about football=Topic | | 8 | **take** | present | Ethan's families *not said here* | turns | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turn=Theme | | 9 | **sit** | to-infinitive | Ethan's families *not said here* | | | | | with Grandma | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 10 | **not** **is** | present | Jasmine | | | | | alone *property* | tree rules | 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. 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