--- title: A boy in Boston feels it was his fault that his grandpa died because… — Family changes and grief · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Boston feels it was his fault that his grandpa died because he had been cross with him; his mum explains that thoughts and wishes can never make someone die, and they make a memory box together. Who acts: boy, grandpa, mum, thoughts. 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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 (boy, grandpa, mum, thoughts), 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:4 # text = A boy in Boston feels it was his fault that his grandpa died because he had been cross with him; his mum explains that thoughts and wishes can never make someone die, and they make a memory box together. # 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 ×4, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Boston Boston PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 feels feel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 expl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:nsubj 7 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 8 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 fault fault NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 ccomp _ _ 10 that that SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 11 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 grandpa grandpa NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:acl 14 because because SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 16 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 17 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 18 cop _ _ 18 cross cross NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 advcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:advcl|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 19 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:obl 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 explains explain VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 25 that that SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 26 thoughts thought NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 wishes wish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 conj _ _ 29 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 30 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 31 advmod _ _ 31 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 ccomp _ _ 32 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 33 nsubj _ _ 33 die die VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 xcomp _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 36 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 37 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 memory memory NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 compound _ _ 40 box box NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 41 together together ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=40:advmod 42 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **feel** | present | a boy in Boston | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **is a** | past | a boy in Boston *not said here* | boy's fault | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **die** | past | boy's grandpa | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 4 | **is a** | past · perfect | grandpa | cross | | | | with boy | tree rules | | 5 | **explain** *speech: assert* | present | boy's mum | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **not** **make** | can | thoughts and wishes | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **not** **die** | infinitive | someone | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 8 | **make** | present | thoughts *= thought* | a memory box | | | | together *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset box=Product | 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:4`. **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 ×4, R8-pos-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, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/214-family-changes-and-grief/3/) - next →: [Family changes and grief, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/214-family-changes-and-grief/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/214-family-changes-and-grief/)