--- title: Grown-ups cry when they are very sad, just like children; crying let… — When someone dies · tree and pragmatics description: Grown-ups cry when they are very sad, just like children; crying lets out big feelings and does not make them any less able to look after you. Who acts: Grown ups, ups, crying, feelings. A sentence of the lesson «When someone dies» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependenc --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/24-when-someone-dies/12/) [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/) / [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/) / [When someone dies](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/24-when-someone-dies/) / 12 # When someone dies, sentence 12 Grown-ups cry when they are very sad, just like children; crying lets out big feelings and does not make them any less able to look after you. **Who acts:** Grown ups, ups, crying, feelings · **What happens:** cry, be, let out, not make, look · **To what, where:** big feelings, feelings This is a sentence of the lesson «When someone dies» 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, crying, feelings), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:024-when-someone-dies.lesson:12 # text = Grown-ups cry when they are very sad, just like children; crying lets out big feelings and does not make them any less able to look after you. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 024-when-someone-dies.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, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Grown grow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 compound _ _ 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ _ 3 ups ups NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 cry cry VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 9 advmod _ _ 6 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 7 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 8 very very ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 sad sad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 advcl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 just just ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 12 like like ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 crying crying NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:nsubj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 lets let VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 17 out out ADP RP _ 16 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 18 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 feelings feeling NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 22 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 23 advmod _ _ 23 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 conj _ _ 24 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 any any ADV RB PronType=Ind 26 advmod _ _ 26 less less ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 27 advmod _ _ 27 able able ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 xcomp _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 xcomp _ _ 30 after after ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 29 obl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | present | Grown ups | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | present | ups | | | | | like children; sad *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **let out** | present | crying | big feelings | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feeling=Theme | | 4 | **not** **make** | present · do-support | crying *not said here* | feelings *= feeling* | | | | able *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product | | 5 | **look** | to-infinitive | feelings *= feeling* *not said here* | | | | after you | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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:adult-life:024-when-someone-dies.lesson:12`. **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, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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/). - ← previous: [When someone dies, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/24-when-someone-dies/11/) - next →: [When someone dies, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/24-when-someone-dies/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/24-when-someone-dies/)