--- title: Dying people still enjoy ordinary things, like having their nails pa… — Kindness to the dying and visiting the old · tree and pragmatics description: Dying people still enjoy ordinary things, like having their nails painted or chatting about football. Who acts: Dying people, nails. 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 the pragmatic --- [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/13/) [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/) / 13 # Kindness to the dying and visiting the old, sentence 13 Dying people still enjoy ordinary things, like having their nails painted or chatting about football. **Who acts:** Dying people, nails · **What happens:** die, enjoy, have, paint, chat · **To what, where:** ordinary things, nails 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 (Dying people, nails), 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:13 # text = Dying people still enjoy ordinary things, like having their nails painted or chatting about football. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Dying die VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 amod _ _ 2 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 still still ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 enjoy enjoy VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 ordinary ordinary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 like like SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 9 having have VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis 10 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 nails nail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 12 painted paint VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:acl 13 or or CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 chatting chat VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 conj _ _ 15 about about ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 football football NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 17 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | 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 | **enjoy** | present | Dying people | ordinary things | | | still | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus | | 3 | **have** | gerund | Dying people *not said here* | people's nails | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **paint** | participle | people's nails *not said here* | | | | | | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **chat** *speech: other* | gerund | Dying people *not said here* | | | | | about football | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about football=Topic | 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:13`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×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. 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