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title: Happy tears come when people are moved, touched or very happy; they… — Big feelings in big people · tree and pragmatics
description: Happy tears come when people are moved, touched or very happy; they pass quickly and leave people feeling warm. Who acts: Happy tears, people. A sentence of the lesson «Big feelings in big people» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Big feelings in big people, sentence 20

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Happy tears come when people are moved, touched or very happy; they pass quickly and leave people feeling warm.

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**Who acts:** Happy tears, people · **What happens:** come, move, touch, pass, leave, feel · **To what, where:** people

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Big feelings in big people» 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 (Happy tears, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:036-big-feelings-in-big-people.lesson:20
# text = Happy tears come when people are moved, touched or very happy; they pass quickly and leave people feeling warm.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 036-big-feelings-in-big-people.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 ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	moved	move	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	touched	touch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:parataxis
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	very	very	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	pass	pass	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:advcl
16	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	leave	leave	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Sub|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
19	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
20	feeling	feel	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:advcl
21	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | Happy tears |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **move** | present · passive |  | people |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: subject=Result |
| 3 | **touch** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **pass** | present | people |  |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **leave** | present | people *not said here* | people |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **feel** | gerund | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | warm *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:036-big-feelings-in-big-people.lesson:20`.

**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 ×3, 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.

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

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