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title: Crying at music, from happiness or sadness, is normal. — Concerts, orchestras and live gigs · tree and pragmatics
description: Crying at music, from happiness or sadness, is normal. Who acts: Crying. A sentence of the lesson «Concerts, orchestras and live gigs» of the arts course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Concerts, orchestras and live gigs, sentence 16

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Crying at music, from happiness or sadness, is normal.

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**Who acts:** Crying · **What happens:** cry, be · **To what, where:** music

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Concerts, orchestras and live gigs» of the arts 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 (Crying), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:arts:011-concerts-orchestras-and-live-gigs.lesson:16
# text = Crying at music, from happiness or sadness, is normal.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = arts
# lesson = 011-concerts-orchestras-and-live-gigs.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	Crying	cry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	csubj	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	happiness	happiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	sadness	sadness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	normal	normal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund |  |  |  | music |  | from happiness or sadness | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at music=Location |
| 2 | **is** | present | Crying |  |  |  |  | normal *property* | tree rules |

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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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**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/).

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