--- title: Max says he is less scared of dying since talking about it, because… — Life and death: putting it all together · tree and pragmatics description: Max says he is less scared of dying since talking about it, because a fear that is shared gets smaller; Ellie says different people believe different things about what happens after death, Christians resurrection and heaven, others rebirth, judgement and Paradise, or that life simply ends, and frien --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/80-life-and-death-putting-it-all-together/2/) [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/) / [Life and death: putting it all together](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/80-life-and-death-putting-it-all-together/) / 2 # Life and death: putting it all together, sentence 2 Max says he is less scared of dying since talking about it, because a fear that is shared gets smaller; Ellie says different people believe different things about what happens after death, Christians resurrection and heaven, others rebirth, judgement and Paradise, or that life simply ends, and friends can respect each other across all of them. **Who acts:** Max, fear, Ellie, different people, different things, life · **What happens:** say, be, die, talk, share, get · **To what, where:** fear, different things, each, all · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Life and death: putting it all together» 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 (Max, fear, Ellie, different people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:080-life-and-death-putting-it-all-together.lesson:2 # text = Max says he is less scared of dying since talking about it, because a fear that is shared gets smaller; Ellie says different people believe different things about what happens after death, Christians resurrection and heaven, others rebirth, judgement and Paradise, or that life simply ends, and friends can respect each other across all of them. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 080-life-and-death-putting-it-all-together.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Max max PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 less less ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 6 advmod _ _ 6 scared scared ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 ccomp _ _ 7 of of SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:case 8 dying die VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:obl 9 since since SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 10 talking talk VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ _ 11 about about ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 14 because because SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 fear fear NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 17 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 19 nsubj:pass _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux:pass _ _ 19 shared share VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 acl:relcl _ _ 20 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 21 smaller small ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 20 xcomp _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 Ellie Ellie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 25 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 27 believe believe VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 ccomp _ _ 28 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 30 about about SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 31 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 32 nsubj _ _ 32 happens happen VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 acl:relcl _ _ 33 after after ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=36:punct 36 Christians Christian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 37 compound _ _ 37 resurrection resurrection NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 heaven heaven NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 conj _ _ 40 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 41 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 nmod:poss _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=42:compound 42 rebirth rebirth NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 conj _ _ 43 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 44 judgement judgement NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 appos _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 46 Paradise paradise PROPN NNP Number=Sing 44 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=44:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 47 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 48 or or CCONJ CC _ 52 cc _ _ 49 that that SCONJ IN _ 52 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=50:det|HaikuPos=DET:DT:Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 50 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 nsubj _ _ 51 simply simply ADV RB _ 52 advmod _ _ 52 ends end VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 53 , , PUNCT , _ 57 punct _ _ 54 and and CCONJ CC _ 57 cc _ _ 55 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 57 nsubj _ _ 56 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 57 aux _ _ 57 respect respect VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 52 conj _ _ 58 each each DET DT ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp 57 obj _ _ 59 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 58 fixed _ _ 60 across across ADP IN _ 61 case _ _ 61 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 57 obl _ _ 62 of of ADP IN _ 63 case _ _ 63 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 61 nmod _ _ 64 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Max | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | present | Max | | | | | less, scared *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **die** | gerund | Max *not said here* | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 4 | **talk** | gerund | Max *not said here* | | | | | about grief | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic | | 5 | **share** | present · passive | | a fear | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **get** | present | a fear | | | | | small *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Ellie | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 8 | **believe** | present | different people | different things Christians resurrection and heaven and others's rebirth | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus | | 9 | **happen** | present | different things Christians resurrection and heaven and others's rebirth | | | | after death | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 10 | **end** | present | life | | | | | simply *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 11 | **respect** | can | friends | each | | all | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus | 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:080-life-and-death-putting-it-all-together.lesson:2`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4, 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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