--- title: Before he died, Grandad asked Ellie to look after his garden, and ev… — Promises, memory and keeping each other safe · tree and pragmatics description: Before he died, Grandad asked Ellie to look after his garden, and every week she waters his tomatoes: keeping a promise to someone who has died is a way of honouring them and keeping their love alive, and families try to follow wishes like Sophie's nan's, to have her ashes scattered at the beach whe --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/79-promises-memory-and-keeping-each-other-safe/0/) [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/) / [Promises, memory and keeping each othe…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/79-promises-memory-and-keeping-each-other-safe/) / 0 # Promises, memory and keeping each other safe, sentence 0 Before he died, Grandad asked Ellie to look after his garden, and every week she waters his tomatoes: keeping a promise to someone who has died is a way of honouring them and keeping their love alive, and families try to follow wishes like Sophie's nan's, to have her ashes scattered at the beach where she grew up. **Who acts:** he, Grandad, Ellie, keeping, way, families · **What happens:** die, ask, look, water, keep, be · **To what, where:** Ellie, tomatoes, promise, way, love, wishes This is a sentence of the lesson «Promises, memory and keeping each other safe» 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 (he, Grandad, Ellie, keeping), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:079-promises-memory-and-keeping-each-other-safe.lesson:0 # text = Before he died, Grandad asked Ellie to look after his garden, and every week she waters his tomatoes: keeping a promise to someone who has died is a way of honouring them and keeping their love alive, and families try to follow wishes like Sophie's nan's, to have her ashes scattered at the beach where she grew up. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 079-promises-memory-and-keeping-each-other-safe.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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Before before SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 Grandad Grandad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 Ellie Ellie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 10 after after ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 15 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 16 det _ _ 16 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl:unmarked _ _ 17 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 waters water VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 tomatoes tomato NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 21 : : PUNCT : _ 32 punct _ _ 22 keeping keep VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 32 csubj _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 promise promise NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 24 nmod _ _ 27 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 29 nsubj _ _ 28 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 died die VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 26 acl:relcl _ _ 30 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 parataxis _ _ 33 of of SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 34 honouring honour VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 32 acl _ _ 35 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 keeping keep VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 34 conj _ _ 38 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 40 alive alive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 xcomp _ _ 41 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 43 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 nsubj _ _ 44 try try VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 conj _ _ 45 to to PART TO _ 46 mark _ _ 46 follow follow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 44 xcomp _ _ 47 wishes wish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 46 obj _ _ 48 like like ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 49 Sophie Sophie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 51 nmod:poss _ _ 50 's 's PART POS _ 49 case _ _ 51 nan nan NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 nmod _ _ 52 's 's PART POS _ 51 case _ _ 53 , , PUNCT , _ 55 punct _ _ 54 to to PART TO _ 55 mark _ _ 55 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 46 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=46:conj 56 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 57 nmod:poss _ _ 57 ashes ash NOUN NNS Number=Plur 55 obj _ _ 58 scattered scatter VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 57 acl _ _ 59 at at ADP IN _ 61 case _ _ 60 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 61 det _ _ 61 beach beach NOUN NN Number=Sing 58 obl _ _ 62 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 64 advmod _ _ 63 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 64 nsubj _ _ 64 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 61 acl:relcl _ _ 65 up up ADP RP _ 64 compound:prt _ _ 66 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **die** | past | he | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Grandad | | Ellie | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent ellie=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **look** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Grandad *not said here* | | | | after Grandad's garden | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **water** | present | Ellie | Grandad's tomatoes | | | week | | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent tomato=Destination | | 5 | **keep** | gerund | | a promise | | | | to someone | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme | | 6 | **die** | present · perfect | | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 7 | **is a** | present | keeping | a way | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **honour** | gerund | a way *not said here* | tomatoes *= tomato* | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **keep** | gerund | a way *not said here* | tomatoes's love | | | | alive *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=Theme | | 10 | **try** | present | families | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 11 | **follow** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | families *not said here* | wishes | | | | like Sophie's nan | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Theme | | 12 | **have** | to-infinitive | families *not said here* | Ellie's ashes | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ash=Patient | | 13 | **scatter** | participle | | Ellie's ashes *not said here* | | the beach | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme at beach=Destination | | 14 | **grow up** | past | Ellie | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 15 | **love** | | tomatoes *= tomato* | | | | | | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | 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:079-promises-memory-and-keeping-each-other-safe.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): R7-rel-agree ×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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