--- title: For a child today this means: it is good to talk with your family ab… — Gifts of life: organ donation and giving blood · tree and pragmatics description: For a child today this means: it is good to talk with your family about it, to say thank you for gifts of life, and to know that when you are older you can choose to help. Who acts: this, you. 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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 (this, you), 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:5 # text = For a child today this means: it is good to talk with your family about it, to say thank you for gifts of life, and to know that when you are older you can choose to help. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×3 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 _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:nsubj 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 : _ 10 punct _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 expl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:nsubj 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 10 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 ccomp _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 talk talk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 csubj _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 16 about about ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 parataxis _ _ 21 thank thank VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 22 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 for for ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 gifts gift NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 31 that that SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 32 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 35 advmod _ _ 33 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 34 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 35 older old ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 38 advcl _ _ 36 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 37 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 38 choose choose VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 ccomp _ _ 39 to to PART TO _ 40 mark _ _ 40 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 xcomp _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: changed polarity=pos | # | 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** | present | | | | | | good *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **talk** | to-infinitive | | | | | | with your family; about family | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.topic»: agent=Agent with family=Co-Agent about it=Topic | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **thank** *speech: thank* | present | | | you | | | for gifts of life | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent you=Theme for gift=Attribute | | 6 | **know** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 7 | **is** | present | you | | | | | old *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **choose** | can | you | | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **help** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 10 | **gift** | | | 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: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): R7-rel-agree ×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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