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title: People grieve in different ways; not crying at a funeral doesn't mea… — Dementia and the first death in the family · tree and pragmatics
description: People grieve in different ways; not crying at a funeral doesn't mean you don't care. Who acts: People, crying, you. A sentence of the lesson «Dementia and the first death in the family» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Dementia and the first death in the family, sentence 39

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People grieve in different ways; not crying at a funeral doesn't mean you don't care.

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**Who acts:** People, crying, you · **What happens:** grieve, not cry, not mean, not care · **To what, where:** different ways, funeral · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Dementia and the first death in the family» 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 (People, crying, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:514-dementia-and-the-first-death-in-the-family.lesson:39
# text = People grieve in different ways; not crying at a funeral doesn't mean you don't care.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 514-dementia-and-the-first-death-in-the-family.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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	grieve	grieve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	parataxis	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	csubj	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	funeral	funeral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	care	care	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	ccomp	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grieve** | infinitive | People |  |  | different ways |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **not** **cry** *speech: express* | gerund |  |  |  | a funeral |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at funeral=Location |
| 3 | **not** **mean** | present · do-support | crying |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **not** **care** | present · do-support | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:514-dementia-and-the-first-death-in-the-family.lesson:39`.

**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): R6-punct-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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