--- title: A hospice is a place that cares for people who are dying, helping th… — Kindness to the dying and visiting the old · tree and pragmatics description: A hospice is a place that cares for people who are dying, helping them to be comfortable and live as well as they can. Who acts: hospice, place, people. 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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 (hospice, place, people), 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:6 # text = A hospice is a place that cares for people who are dying, helping them to be comfortable and live as well as they can. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 hospice hospice NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 7 cares care VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 10 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 11 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 dying die VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 acl:relcl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 helping help VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:conj 15 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 17 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 18 cop _ _ 18 comfortable comfortable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 xcomp _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 as as ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 20 advmod _ _ 23 as as SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 24 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 advcl _ _ 26 . . 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 | **is a** | present | a hospice | a place | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **care** | present | a place | | | | | for people | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for people=Theme | | 3 | **die** | present · progressive | people | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 4 | **help** | gerund | a place *not said here* | people | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary | | 5 | **is** | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | | | | | comfortable *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **live** | infinitive | a place *not said here* | | | | | well *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «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:6`. **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, R8-pos-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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