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title: People also grieve for people: «my other half» means a husband, wife… — How pets feel and saying goodbye · tree and pragmatics
description: People also grieve for people: «my other half» means a husband, wife or partner, the person someone loves most and shares life with. Who acts: People, other half, someone. A sentence of the lesson «How pets feel and saying goodbye» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency 
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# How pets feel and saying goodbye, sentence 22

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People also grieve for people: «my other half» means a husband, wife or partner, the person someone loves most and shares life with.

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**Who acts:** People, other half, someone · **What happens:** grieve, mean, love, share · **To what, where:** husband, life

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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 (People, other half, someone), 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:22
# text = People also grieve for people: «my other half» means a husband, wife or partner, the person someone loves most and shares life with.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	also	also	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	grieve	grieve	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
7	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	12	nsubj	_	_
11	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
12	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:appos
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	partner	partner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:det
21	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	23	nsubj	_	_
23	loves	love	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
24	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	23	advmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	shares	share	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
27	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
28	with	with	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **grieve** | present | People |  |  |  |  | for people | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **mean** | present | my other half | a husband and wife or partner |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Topic |
| 3 | **love** | present | someone |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **share** | present | someone *not said here* | life |  |  |  | with *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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**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:22`.

**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 ×1, R7-rel-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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