--- title: Grief gets gentler over months and years; playing and laughing durin… — When someone dies · tree and pragmatics description: Grief gets gentler over months and years; playing and laughing during that time does not mean you have forgotten the person. Who acts: Grief, playing, you. A sentence of the lesson «When someone dies» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev --- [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/14/) [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/) / 14 # When someone dies, sentence 14 Grief gets gentler over months and years; playing and laughing during that time does not mean you have forgotten the person. **Who acts:** Grief, playing, you · **What happens:** get, play, laugh, not mean, forget · **To what, where:** person · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Grief, playing, you), 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:14 # text = Grief gets gentler over months and years; playing and laughing during that time does not mean you have forgotten the person. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Grief grief NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 gentler gentle ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 2 xcomp _ _ 4 over over ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:obl 8 ; ; PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 9 playing play VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:nsubj 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 laughing laugh VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 conj _ _ 12 during during ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 14 det _ _ 14 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 17 mean mean VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 18 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 forgotten forget VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 17 ccomp _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | present | Grief | | | | | gentle *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **play** | gerund | | | | | | | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **laugh** | gerund | | | | | time | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **not** **mean** | present · do-support | playing | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **forget** | present · perfect | you | the person | | | | | tree rules | 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: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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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/). - ← previous: [When someone dies, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/24-when-someone-dies/13/) - next →: [When someone dies, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/24-when-someone-dies/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/24-when-someone-dies/)