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title: We can be sad together.» Children don't have to protect a grieving p… — When a parent has died · tree and pragmatics
description: We can be sad together.» Children don't have to protect a grieving parent. Who acts: We, Children. A sentence of the lesson «When a parent has died» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# When a parent has died, sentence 28

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We can be sad together.» Children don't have to protect a grieving parent.

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**Who acts:** We, Children · **What happens:** be, not have, protect, grieve · **To what, where:** grieving parent · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «When a parent has died» 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 (We, Children), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:518-when-a-parent-has-died.lesson:28
# text = We can be sad together.» Children don't have to protect a grieving parent.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 518-when-a-parent-has-died.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	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
4	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	together	together	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
7	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
8	Children	Children	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
9	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	protect	protect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	grieving	grieve	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	amod	_	_
16	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **is** | can | We |  |  |  |  | sad, together *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **have** *in a quote* | present · do-support | Children |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **protect** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Children *not said here* |  | a grieving parent |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parent=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **grieve** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: 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:518-when-a-parent-has-died.lesson:28`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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