--- title: Children don't have to stay extra good or happy to protect a grievin… — When a parent has died · tree and pragmatics description: Children don't have to stay extra good or happy to protect a grieving parent; families can be sad together. Who acts: Children, families. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/518-when-a-parent-has-died/46/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [When a parent has died](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/518-when-a-parent-has-died/) / 46 # When a parent has died, sentence 46 Children don't have to stay extra good or happy to protect a grieving parent; families can be sad together. **Who acts:** Children, families · **What happens:** not have, stay, protect, grieve, be · **To what, where:** grieving parent 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 (Children, families), 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:46 # text = Children don't have to stay extra good or happy to protect a grieving parent; families can be sad together. # 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): R5-strong ×2 1 Children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 7 extra extra ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:xcomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 8 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:conj 9 or or CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 conj _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 protect protect VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 advcl _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 grieving grieve VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 15 amod _ _ 15 parent parent NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 17 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 18 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 19 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 20 cop _ _ 20 sad sad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 parataxis _ _ 21 together together ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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** **have** | present · do-support | Children | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **stay** | to-infinitive | Children *not said here* | | | | | good *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **protect** | to-infinitive | Children *not said here* | | a grieving parent | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parent=Beneficiary | | 4 | **grieve** | gerund | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **is** | can | families | | | | | sad, together *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:46`. **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): R5-strong ×2. **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, 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/518-when-a-parent-has-died/45/) - next →: [When a parent has died, 48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/518-when-a-parent-has-died/48/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/518-when-a-parent-has-died/)