--- title: Talking to a trusted adult helps, and charities such as Winston's Wi… — When a parent has died · tree and pragmatics description: Talking to a trusted adult helps, and charities such as Winston's Wish support grieving children. Who acts: Talking, charities. 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/50/) [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/) / 50 # When a parent has died, sentence 50 Talking to a trusted adult helps, and charities such as Winston's Wish support grieving children. **Who acts:** Talking, charities · **What happens:** talk, trust, help, support, grieve · **To what, where:** grieving children 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 (Talking, charities), 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:50 # text = Talking to a trusted adult helps, and charities such as Winston's Wish support grieving children. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Talking talk VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 csubj _ _ 2 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 trusted trust VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 amod _ _ 5 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 6 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=6:punct 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 9 charities charity NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 10 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 14 case _ _ 11 as as ADP IN _ 10 fixed _ _ 12 Winston Winston PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nmod:poss _ _ 13 's 's PART POS _ 12 case _ _ 14 Wish wish PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 15 support support VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 16 grieving grieve VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 17 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 17 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 18 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **talk** | gerund | | | | | | to a trusted adult | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to adult=Co-Agent | | 2 | **trust** | participle | | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **help** | present | Talking | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **support** | present | charities such Winston's Wish | grieving children | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus | | 5 | **grieve** | gerund | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | 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:50`. **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, R8-pos-agree ×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, 49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/518-when-a-parent-has-died/49/) - next →: [Parents far away: the army, work abroa…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/519-parents-far-away-the-army-work-abroad-prison/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/518-when-a-parent-has-died/)