--- title: A child may not remember a parent who died when they were very young… — When a parent has died · tree and pragmatics description: A child may not remember a parent who died when they were very young; missing them or not knowing what you feel are both okay. Who acts: child, parent, children, you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child, parent, children, you), 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:44 # text = A child may not remember a parent who died when they were very young; missing them or not knowing what you feel are both okay. # 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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 remember remember VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 parent parent NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 9 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 10 when when SCONJ WRB _ 14 mark _ _ 11 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 12 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 13 very very ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 advcl _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 missing miss VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 csubj _ _ 17 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 or or CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 20 knowing know VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 conj _ _ 21 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 20 obj _ _ 22 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 feel feel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 acl:relcl _ _ 24 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 25 both both ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 okay okay ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 parataxis _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **remember** | may | a child | a parent | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent parent=Theme | | 2 | **die** | past | a parent | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 3 | **is** | past | children *= child* | | | | | young *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **miss** | gerund | | children *= child* | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | | 5 | **not** **know** | gerund | | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | | 6 | **feel** | present | you | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 7 | **is** | present | missing | | | | | both, okay *property* | tree rules | 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. **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:44`. **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/). - ← previous: [When a parent has died, 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/518-when-a-parent-has-died/43/) - next →: [When a parent has died, 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/518-when-a-parent-has-died/45/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/518-when-a-parent-has-died/)