--- title: When writing to someone who will not get better, words like «I love… — Kindness to the dying and visiting the old · tree and pragmatics description: When writing to someone who will not get better, words like «I love you» or «Thinking of you» are both kind and true. Who acts: words, Kindness. A sentence of the lesson «Kindness to the dying and visiting the old» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and t --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/77-kindness-to-the-dying-and-visiting-the-old/12/) [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/) / [Kindness to the dying and visiting the…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/77-kindness-to-the-dying-and-visiting-the-old/) / 12 # Kindness to the dying and visiting the old, sentence 12 When writing to someone who will not get better, words like «I love you» or «Thinking of you» are both kind and true. **Who acts:** words, Kindness · **What happens:** write, not get, love, think, be · **To what, where:** someone, you This is a sentence of the lesson «Kindness to the dying and visiting the old» 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 (words, Kindness), 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:12 # text = When writing to someone who will not get better, words like «I love you» or «Thinking of you» are both kind and true. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 writing write VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 advcl _ _ 3 to to ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 2 obl _ _ 5 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ _ 6 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 7 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 8 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 acl:relcl _ _ 9 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 8 xcomp _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 12 like like ADP IN _ 15 mark _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 13 « « PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct 14 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 love love VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 » » PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 18 or or CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 « « PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 20 Thinking think VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 21 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 20 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:nmod 23 » » PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ 24 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 25 both both ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 kind kind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 conj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 26 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: evaluate - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: changed act=evaluate, polarity=pos, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **write** | gerund | words *not said here* | | someone | | | | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V PP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent to someone=Recipient | | 2 | **not** **get** | future | | | | | | good *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **love** *in a quote* | present | Kindness | you | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | | 4 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | gerund | Kindness *not said here* | | | | | of you | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** | present | words | | | | | both, kind *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **be** | | words *not said here* | | | | | | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:religion-ethics:077-kindness-to-the-dying-and-visiting-the-old.lesson:12`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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. 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