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title: Feeling sad, crying and talking about it are natural, because grief… — How pets feel and saying goodbye · tree and pragmatics
description: Feeling sad, crying and talking about it are natural, because grief is how we feel when we lose someone we love. Who acts: Feeling, grief, we. 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 ev
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# How pets feel and saying goodbye, sentence 4

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Feeling sad, crying and talking about it are natural, because grief is how we feel when we lose someone we love.

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**Who acts:** Feeling, grief, we · **What happens:** feel, cry, talk, be, lose, love · **To what, where:** someone

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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 (Feeling, grief, we), 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:4
# text = Feeling sad, crying and talking about it are natural, because grief is how we feel when we lose someone we love.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Feeling	feel	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:nsubj
2	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
7	about	about	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	natural	natural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
16	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
18	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
19	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	lose	lose	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
21	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	20	obj	_	_
22	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	love	love	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **feel** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | sad *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **talk** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | about illness | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic |
| 4 | **is** | present | Feeling |  |  |  |  | natural *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | present | grief |  |  |  |  | feel *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **lose** | present | we | someone |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Eventuality |
| 7 | **love** | present | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:4`.

**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): 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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