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title: Grief is normal, and talking, crying and keeping memories help. — Moving, new schools, change and grief · tree and pragmatics
description: Grief is normal, and talking, crying and keeping memories help. Who acts: Grief. A sentence of the lesson «Moving, new schools, change and grief» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Moving, new schools, change and grief, sentence 10

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Grief is normal, and talking, crying and keeping memories help.

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**Who acts:** Grief · **What happens:** be, talk, cry, keep, help · **To what, where:** memories

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Moving, new schools, change and grief» 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 (Grief), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:097-moving-change-and-grief.lesson:10
# text = Grief is normal, and talking, crying and keeping memories help.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 097-moving-change-and-grief.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, R3-conj-first ×1
1	Grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	normal	normal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
6	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	nsubj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=8:conj
11	memories	memory	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	.	.	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 | **is** | present | Grief |  |  |  |  | normal *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **talk** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **keep** | gerund |  | memories |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent memory=Theme |
| 5 | **help** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |

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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:097-moving-change-and-grief.lesson:10`.

**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, R3-conj-first ×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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