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title: Grown-ups sometimes cry "happy tears" when they feel strong happy fe… — Dates, engagements and weddings · tree and pragmatics
description: Grown-ups sometimes cry "happy tears" when they feel strong happy feelings like love or pride. Who acts: Grown ups, ups. A sentence of the lesson «Dates, engagements and weddings» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Dates, engagements and weddings, sentence 14

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Grown-ups sometimes cry "happy tears" when they feel strong happy feelings like love or pride.

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**Who acts:** Grown ups, ups · **What happens:** cry, feel · **To what, where:** happy tears, strong happy feelings

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Dates, engagements and weddings» of the adult life 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 (Grown ups, ups), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:013-dates-engagements-and-weddings.lesson:14
# text = Grown-ups sometimes cry "happy tears" when they feel strong happy feelings like love or pride.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 013-dates-engagements-and-weddings.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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Grown	grown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	_
3	ups	up	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	5	advmod	_	_
5	cry	cry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct
7	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
10	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	12	mark	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
13	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	feelings	feeling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
16	like	like	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	pride	pride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | present | Grown ups | happy tears |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tear=Topic |
| 2 | **feel** | present | ups *= up* | strong happy feelings |  |  |  | like love or pride | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feeling=Theme |

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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:adult-life:013-dates-engagements-and-weddings.lesson:14`.

**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): R6-punct-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.

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

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