--- title: For a child today this means: your company is a real gift, and being… — Kindness to the dying and visiting the old · tree and pragmatics description: For a child today this means: your company is a real gift, and being there is often enough. Who acts: this, company. 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 pragmatics of every claus --- [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/5/) [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/) / 5 # Kindness to the dying and visiting the old, sentence 5 For a child today this means: your company is a real gift, and being there is often enough. **Who acts:** this, company · **What happens:** mean, be · **To what, where:** real gift · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (this, company), 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:5 # text = For a child today this means: your company is a real gift, and being there is often enough. # 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): no change 1 For for ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 4 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod:unmarked _ _ 5 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 6 nsubj _ _ 6 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 8 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 company company NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 gift gift NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 ccomp _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 being be VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 18 nsubj _ _ 17 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 18 expl _ _ 18 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 19 often often ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 20 enough enough ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 fixed _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 | this | | | | | for a child today | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot for child=Attribute | | 2 | **is a** | present | your company | a real gift | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **be** | gerund | | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **be** | present | | | | there | | often *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:5`. **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): no change. **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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