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title: Crying and talking about a loss are normal and help people heal. — Moving, new schools, change and grief · tree and pragmatics
description: Crying and talking about a loss are normal and help people heal. Who acts: Crying, people. 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 22

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Crying and talking about a loss are normal and help people heal.

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**Who acts:** Crying, people · **What happens:** cry, talk, be, help, heal · **To what, where:** people

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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 (Crying, people), 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:22
# text = Crying and talking about a loss are normal and help people heal.
# 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): no change
1	Crying	cry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	csubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	conj	_	_
4	about	about	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	loss	loss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	normal	normal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
11	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	heal	heal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **talk** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | about a loss | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about loss=Topic |
| 3 | **is** | present | Crying |  |  |  |  | normal *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **help** | present | Crying *not said here* | people |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent people=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 5 | **heal** | infinitive | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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: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): 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/).

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