--- title: Sometimes when a person dies, parts of their body that are still hea… — Gifts of life: organ donation and giving blood · tree and pragmatics description: Sometimes when a person dies, parts of their body that are still healthy, like the heart, kidneys, liver, lungs or the clear front of the eye, can be given to sick people who need them: this is organ donation, and Lily's teacher calls it «a gift of life». 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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 (person, parts, sick people, this), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:078-gifts-of-life-organ-donation-and-giving-blood.lesson:0 # text = Sometimes when a person dies, parts of their body that are still healthy, like the heart, kidneys, liver, lungs or the clear front of the eye, can be given to sick people who need them: this is organ donation, and Lily's teacher calls it «a gift of life». # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 078-gifts-of-life-organ-donation-and-giving-blood.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): R3-conj-first ×2, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Sometimes sometimes ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:advmod 2 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 5 advmod _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 dies die VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 advcl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 parts part NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj:pass _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 11 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 12 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 13 still still ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 healthy healthy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 acl:relcl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 like like ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 kidneys kidney NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 liver liver NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 lungs lung NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=22:conj 25 or or CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 clear clear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 front front NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=22:conj 29 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 34 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 35 aux:pass _ _ 35 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 36 to to ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 sick sick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obl _ _ 39 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 40 nsubj _ _ 40 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 acl:relcl _ _ 41 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 obj _ _ 42 : : PUNCT : _ 46 punct _ _ 43 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 46 nsubj _ _ 44 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 46 cop _ _ 45 organ organ NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 compound _ _ 46 donation donation NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 parataxis _ _ 47 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 48 and and CCONJ CC _ 52 cc _ _ 49 Lily Lily PROPN NNP Number=Sing 51 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=51:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 50 's 's PART POS _ 49 case _ _ 51 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 nsubj _ _ 52 calls call VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 46 conj _ _ 53 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 52 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=52:nsubj 54 « « PUNCT `` _ 56 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=52:punct 55 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 56 det _ _ 56 gift gift NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=52:obj 57 of of ADP IN _ 58 case _ _ 58 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 nmod _ _ 59 » » PUNCT '' _ 56 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=52:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:.:_ 60 . . PUNCT . _ 35 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **die** | present | a person | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 2 | **is** | present | parts of parts's body | | | | still | like the heart and kidneys and liver and lungs or the clear front of the eye; healthy *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **give** | can · passive | | parts of parts's body | sick people | | | sometimes *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to people=Recipient | | 4 | **need** | present | sick people | parts *= part* | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot they=Theme | | 5 | **is a** | present | this | organ donation | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **call** | present | Lily's teacher | person | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | | 7 | **gift** *in a quote* | | | life | | | | | nom gift «possession transitive»: of=patient | 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:078-gifts-of-life-organ-donation-and-giving-blood.lesson:0`. **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): R3-conj-first ×2, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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