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title: Holding a hand, smiling, reading aloud or showing a drawing can comf… — Kindness to the dying and visiting the old · tree and pragmatics
description: Holding a hand, smiling, reading aloud or showing a drawing can comfort someone who cannot talk much. Who acts: Holding. 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 c
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# Kindness to the dying and visiting the old, sentence 9

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Holding a hand, smiling, reading aloud or showing a drawing can comfort someone who cannot talk much.

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**Who acts:** Holding · **What happens:** hold, smile, read, show, comfort, not talk · **To what, where:** hand, drawing, someone

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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 (Holding), 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:9
# text = Holding a hand, smiling, reading aloud or showing a drawing can comfort someone who cannot talk much.
# 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
1	Holding	hold	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	csubj	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	smiling	smile	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	conj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	reading	read	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	conj	_	_
8	aloud	aloud	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	showing	show	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:conj
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	drawing	drawing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	comfort	comfort	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
15	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	14	obj	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
17	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	talk	talk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl:relcl	_	_
20	much	much	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | gerund |  | a hand |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme |
| 2 | **smile** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **read** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | aloud *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **show** | gerund |  | a drawing |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent drawing=Recipient |
| 5 | **comfort** | can | Holding | someone |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus someone=Experiencer |
| 6 | **not** **talk** | can |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**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:9`.

**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. **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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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