--- title: It is all right to be happy, have a party or laugh while sad things… — Scary news: wars, disasters and how to talk abou… · tree and pragmatics description: It is all right to be happy, have a party or laugh while sad things happen far away; you can be kind and joyful at once. Who acts: sad things, you. 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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 (sad things, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:051-scary-news-wars-disasters-and-how-to-talk-about-them.lesson:21 # text = It is all right to be happy, have a party or laugh while sad things happen far away; you can be kind and joyful at once. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 051-scary-news-wars-disasters-and-how-to-talk-about-them.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 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 expl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 all all ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 6 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 7 cop _ _ 7 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:ccomp 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 party party NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 or or CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 laugh laugh VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 14 while while SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 15 sad sad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 happen happen VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 18 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 19 advmod _ _ 19 away away ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 22 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 23 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 24 cop _ _ 24 kind kind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 joyful joyful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 conj _ _ 27 at at ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 24 obl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | | | | | | all, right *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | to-infinitive | | | | | | happy *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **have** | infinitive | | a party | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent party=Patient | | 4 | **laugh** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **happen** | present | sad things | | | | | away *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **is** | can | you | | | | | kind *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **be** | | you *not said here* | | | | | | 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:051-scary-news-wars-disasters-and-how-to-talk-about-them.lesson:21`. **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. **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. 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