--- title: When someone you love dies, it helps to ask questions, cry, talk abo… — Family changes and grief · tree and pragmatics description: When someone you love dies, it helps to ask questions, cry, talk about them and keep a memory box. Who acts: you, someone, pet. A sentence of the lesson «Family changes and grief» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/214-family-changes-and-grief/12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Family changes and grief](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/214-family-changes-and-grief/) / 12 # Family changes and grief, sentence 12 When someone you love dies, it helps to ask questions, cry, talk about them and keep a memory box. **Who acts:** you, someone, pet · **What happens:** love, die, help, ask, cry, talk · **To what, where:** questions, memory box 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 (you, someone, 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:12 # text = When someone you love dies, it helps to ask questions, cry, talk about them and keep a memory box. # 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): R3-conj-first ×2 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 5 mark _ _ 2 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 5 nsubj _ _ 3 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 love love VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 5 dies die VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 xcomp _ _ 11 questions question NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 cry cry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 talk talk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=13:conj 16 about about ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obl _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=13:conj 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 memory memory NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 box box NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: suggest - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: changed act=suggest, polarity=pos | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **love** | present | you | | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **die** | present | someone | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 3 | **help** | present | pet | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive | pet *not said here* | questions | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient | | 5 | **cry** *speech: express* | infinitive | pet *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **talk** | infinitive | pet *not said here* | | | | | about questions *= question* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about they=Topic | | 7 | **keep** | infinitive | pet *not said here* | a memory box | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Theme | 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:everyday:214-family-changes-and-grief.lesson:12`. **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): R3-conj-first ×2. **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: [Family changes and grief, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/214-family-changes-and-grief/11/) - next →: [Family changes and grief, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/214-family-changes-and-grief/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/214-family-changes-and-grief/)