--- title: Kindness also means noticing: if a lonely neighbour has not been see… — Kindness to the dying and visiting the old · tree and pragmatics description: Kindness also means noticing: if a lonely neighbour has not been seen for days, tell a grown-up, who can check safely; an old person who has fallen may need help fast. Who acts: Kindness, old person. 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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 (Kindness, old person), 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:4 # text = Kindness also means noticing: if a lonely neighbour has not been seen for days, tell a grown-up, who can check safely; an old person who has fallen may need help fast. # 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 ×3 1 Kindness kindness NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 also also ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 noticing notice VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 ccomp _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 6 if if SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 lonely lonely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 neighbour neighbour NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 10 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 11 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 12 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 advcl _ _ 14 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 17 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:det 19 grown grow NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ _ 21 up up ADP RP _ 17 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:compound 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 25 nsubj _ _ 24 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 check check VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:acl:relcl 26 safely safely ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 27 ; ; PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 31 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 33 nsubj _ _ 32 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 fallen fall VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 30 acl:relcl _ _ 34 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 need need VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 36 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 37 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 35 advmod _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **mean** | present | Kindness | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **notice** | gerund | | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **not** **see** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · perfect · passive | | a lonely neighbour | | | day | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | Kindness *not said here* | grown | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent grow=Recipient up=Topic | | 5 | **check** | can | | | | | | safely *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **fall** | present · perfect | a old person | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **need** | may | a old person | help | | | | fast *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=Theme | 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:4`. **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 ×3. **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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