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title: After a pet dies, you wait a while and talk with your family before… — Family changes and grief · tree and pragmatics
description: After a pet dies, you wait a while and talk with your family before getting a new one; you need time to grieve, and a new pet does not replace the old one. Who acts: pet, you, new pet. A sentence of the lesson «Family changes and grief» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its depend
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# Family changes and grief, sentence 11

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After a pet dies, you wait a while and talk with your family before getting a new one; you need time to grieve, and a new pet does not replace the old one.

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**Who acts:** pet, you, new pet · **What happens:** die, wait, talk, get, need, grieve · **To what, where:** new one, old one

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Family changes and grief» of the everyday 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 (pet, you, new pet), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:214-family-changes-and-grief.lesson:11
# text = After a pet dies, you wait a while and talk with your family before getting a new one; you need time to grieve, and a new pet does not replace the old one.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 214-family-changes-and-grief.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 ×1
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	pet	pet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	dies	die	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	wait	wait	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	talk	talk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
23	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	grieve	grieve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	acl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	pet	pet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
31	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
33	replace	replace	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **die** | present | a pet |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **wait** | present | you |  |  |  | while |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **talk** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with your family | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with family=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **get** | gerund | you *not said here* | a new one |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus |
| 5 | **need** | present | you |  |  |  | time |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 6 | **grieve** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **not** **replace** | present · do-support | a new pet | the old one |  |  |  |  | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme one=Co-Theme |

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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:everyday:214-family-changes-and-grief.lesson:11`.

**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 ×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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