--- title: Being told the truth gently about a pet's death helps children griev… — How pets feel and saying goodbye · tree and pragmatics description: Being told the truth gently about a pet's death helps children grieve better than being told a story. Who acts: children, pet. A sentence of the lesson «How pets feel and saying goodbye» 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/66-how-pets-feel-and-saying-goodbye/21/) [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/) / [How pets feel and saying goodbye](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/66-how-pets-feel-and-saying-goodbye/) / 21 # How pets feel and saying goodbye, sentence 21 Being told the truth gently about a pet's death helps children grieve better than being told a story. **Who acts:** children, pet · **What happens:** tell, help, grieve, die · **To what, where:** truth, children, story · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «How pets feel and saying goodbye» 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, pet), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:066-how-pets-feel-and-saying-goodbye.lesson:21 # text = Being told the truth gently about a pet's death helps children grieve better than being told a story. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 066-how-pets-feel-and-saying-goodbye.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 Being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 aux:pass _ _ 2 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 csubj _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 gently gently ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 6 about about ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 pet pet NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod:poss _ _ 9 's 's PART POS _ 8 case _ _ 10 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 11 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 13 grieve grieve VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ _ 14 better well ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 13 advmod _ _ 15 than than SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 16 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 advcl _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund · passive | | the truth | | | | about a pet's death; gently *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: truth=Recipient about death=Topic | | 2 | **help** | present | | children | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent child=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 3 | **grieve** | infinitive | children *not said here* | | | | | well *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund · passive | children *not said here* | a story | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: story=Recipient | | 5 | **die** | | a pet | | | | | | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent | 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:066-how-pets-feel-and-saying-goodbye.lesson:21`. **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: [How pets feel and saying goodbye, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/66-how-pets-feel-and-saying-goodbye/20/) - next →: [How pets feel and saying goodbye, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/66-how-pets-feel-and-saying-goodbye/22/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/66-how-pets-feel-and-saying-goodbye/)