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title: Special days like Mother's Day or Father's Day can hurt; making a ca… — When a parent has died · tree and pragmatics
description: Special days like Mother's Day or Father's Day can hurt; making a card for the parent who died, or for someone else who cares for you, is fine. Who acts: Special days, parent. A sentence of the lesson «When a parent has died» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree a
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# When a parent has died, sentence 41

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Special days like Mother's Day or Father's Day can hurt; making a card for the parent who died, or for someone else who cares for you, is fine.

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**Who acts:** Special days, parent · **What happens:** hurt, make, die, care, be · **To what, where:** card

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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 (Special days, parent), 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:41
# text = Special days like Mother's Day or Father's Day can hurt; making a card for the parent who died, or for someone else who cares for you, is fine.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	Mother	Mother	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	Day	Day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	Father	Father	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	Day	Day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	hurt	hurt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
14	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	card	card	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
23	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	33	obl	_	_
26	else	else	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
28	cares	care	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
32	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
33	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **hurt** | can | Special days like Mother's Day or Father |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **make** | gerund | Special days like Mother's Day or Father *not said here* | a card |  |  |  | for the parent | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent card=Product for parent=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **die** | past | the parent |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **care** | present |  |  |  |  |  | for you | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for you=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | present | Special days like Mother's Day or Father *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for someone; fine *property* | tree rules |

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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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**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): R8-pos-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.

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