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title: Writing a letter, looking at photos or praying can help someone say… — Dementia and the first death in the family · tree and pragmatics
description: Writing a letter, looking at photos or praying can help someone say goodbye. Who acts: Writing, someone. 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 41

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Writing a letter, looking at photos or praying can help someone say goodbye.

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**Who acts:** Writing, someone · **What happens:** write, look, help, say · **To what, where:** letter, someone, goodbye · **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 (Writing, someone), 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:41
# text = Writing a letter, looking at photos or praying can help someone say goodbye.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1
1	Writing	write	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	csubj	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	photos	photo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=7:cc
9	praying	praying	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	11	obj	_	_
13	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	goodbye	goodbye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | gerund |  | a letter |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Theme |
| 2 | **look** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | at photos or praying | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at photo=Theme |
| 3 | **help** | can | Writing | someone |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent someone=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | someone *not said here* | goodbye |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent goodbye=Topic |

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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:41`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×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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