--- title: When a pet dies, wait a while and talk it through with your family b… — Interrupting, boasting, your own story, losing a… · tree and pragmatics description: When a pet dies, wait a while and talk it through with your family before getting a new one; you need time to grieve. Who acts: pet, you. A sentence of the lesson «Interrupting, boasting, your own story, losing a pet or a person, bullying, saying no, comparing yourself online, pocket money and curio --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/320-interrupting-boasting-loss-bullying-saying-no-and-pocket-money/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/) / [Interrupting, boasting, your own story…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/320-interrupting-boasting-loss-bullying-saying-no-and-pocket-money/) / 12 # Interrupting, boasting, your own story, losing a pet or a person, bullying, saying no, comparing yourself online, pocket money and curiosity, sentence 12 When a pet dies, wait a while and talk it through with your family before getting a new one; you need time to grieve. **Who acts:** pet, you · **What happens:** die, wait, talk through, get, need, grieve · **To what, where:** story, new one This is a sentence of the lesson «Interrupting, boasting, your own story, losing a pet or a person, bullying, saying no, comparing yourself online, pocket money and curiosity» 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:320-interrupting-boasting-loss-bullying-saying-no-and-pocket-money.lesson:12 # text = When a pet dies, wait a while and talk it through with your family before getting a new one; you need time to grieve. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 320-interrupting-boasting-loss-bullying-saying-no-and-pocket-money.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 When when SCONJ WRB _ 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 6 advcl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 wait wait VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 while while NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl:unmarked _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 talk talk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 through through ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 16 before before SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 17 getting get VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 24 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 grieve grieve VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 acl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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** | present | a pet | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 2 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | while | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **talk through** | infinitive | you *not said here* | story | | | | with your family | tree rules | | 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 | 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:320-interrupting-boasting-loss-bullying-saying-no-and-pocket-money.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): 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. 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