--- title: Tears are not always sad either: Mum can cry at the end of a film be… — Big feelings in big people · tree and pragmatics description: Tears are not always sad either: Mum can cry at the end of a film because it moved her, and Grandma can cry because she misses Grandad. Who acts: Tears, Mum, film, Grandma. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tears, Mum, film, Grandma), 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:6 # text = Tears are not always sad either: Mum can cry at the end of a film because it moved her, and Grandma can cry because she misses Grandad. # 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): no change 1 Tears tear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 4 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 5 advmod _ _ 5 sad sad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 either either ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ _ 8 Mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 9 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 cry cry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ _ 11 at at ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 film film NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 17 because because SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 moved move VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 20 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 Grandma grandma NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 24 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 cry cry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 26 because because SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 27 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 misses miss VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 advcl _ _ 29 Grandad Grandad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is** | present | Tears | | | | | always, either, sad *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | can | Mum | | | | at the end of a film | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at end=Location | | 3 | **move** | past | film | Mum | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme she=Result | | 4 | **cry** *speech: express* | can | Grandma | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **miss** | present | Grandma | Grandad | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer grandad=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:036-big-feelings-in-big-people.lesson:6`. **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): no change. **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: [Big feelings in big people, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/36-big-feelings-in-big-people/5/) - next →: [Big feelings in big people, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/36-big-feelings-in-big-people/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/36-big-feelings-in-big-people/)