--- title: After his grandad died, a boy in Wales kept all his sadness inside a… — Family changes and grief · tree and pragmatics description: After his grandad died, a boy in Wales kept all his sadness inside and began getting stomach aches every day; when he finally talked with his mum and a school counsellor (a person at school whose job is to listen and help with feelings), the aches eased. Who acts: grandad, boy, aches, person. 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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 (grandad, boy, aches, person), 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:17 # text = After his grandad died, a boy in Wales kept all his sadness inside and began getting stomach aches every day; when he finally talked with his mum and a school counsellor (a person at school whose job is to listen and help with feelings), the aches eased. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 After after SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 grandad grandad NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 Wales Wales PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 10 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 13 det:predet _ _ 12 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 sadness sadness NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 14 inside inside ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 17 getting get VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 xcomp _ _ 18 stomach stomach NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 aches ache NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 20 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 21 det _ _ 21 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:nmod:unmarked 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 26 advmod _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 finally finally ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 talked talk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 52 advcl _ _ 27 with with ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 counsellor counsellor NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ _ 34 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 36 punct _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 appos _ _ 37 at at ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ _ 39 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 job job NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ _ 41 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 cop _ _ 42 to to PART TO _ 43 mark _ _ 43 listen listen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 acl:relcl _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 45 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 43 conj _ _ 46 with with ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 47 feelings feeling NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 obl _ _ 48 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 36 punct _ _ 49 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 50 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 51 aches ache NOUN NNS Number=Plur 52 nsubj _ _ 52 eased ease VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj 53 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **die** | past | child's grandad | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 2 | **keep** | past | a boy in Wales | child's sadness | | | | inside *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sadness=Theme | | 3 | **begin** | past | a boy in Wales *not said here* | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **get** | gerund | a boy in Wales *not said here* | stomach aches | | | day | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ache=Stimulus | | 5 | **talk** | past | boy | | | | | with child's mum and a school counsellor; finally *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with mum=Co-Agent | | 6 | **is** | present | boy *not said here* | | | | | listen *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **help** | infinitive | boy *not said here* | | | | | with feelings | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with feeling=Theme | | 8 | **ease** | past | the aches | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 9 | **job** | | a person at school a person at school job's job | | | | | | nom job «act intransitive»: poss=agent | 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:17`. **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): R5-strong ×1, 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/). - ← previous: [Family changes and grief, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/214-family-changes-and-grief/16/) - next →: [Family changes and grief, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/214-family-changes-and-grief/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/214-family-changes-and-grief/)