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title: When someone dies, they do not come back; the sadness people feel af… — When a parent has died · tree and pragmatics
description: When someone dies, they do not come back; the sadness people feel after a death is called grief. Who acts: someone, friends, people. 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 39

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When someone dies, they do not come back; the sadness people feel after a death is called grief.

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**Who acts:** someone, friends, people · **What happens:** die, not come back, feel, call · **To what, where:** death, sadness · **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 (someone, friends, people), 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:39
# text = When someone dies, they do not come back; the sadness people feel after a death is called grief.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	nsubj	_	_
3	dies	die	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	back	back	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=8:punct
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	sadness	sadness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	after	after	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj
20	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	xcomp	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **die** | present | someone |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **not** **come back** | present · do-support | friends *= friend* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **feel** | present | people | a death |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sadness=Theme |
| 4 | **call** | present · passive |  | the sadness |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |

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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: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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-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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