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title: Grief comes and goes in waves: you may cry one moment and laugh the… — Moving, new schools, change and grief · tree and pragmatics
description: Grief comes and goes in waves: you may cry one moment and laugh the next, and laughing does not mean you have forgotten; talking, crying and keeping memories all help. Who acts: Grief, you. A sentence of the lesson «Moving, new schools, change and grief» of the everyday course of Mova's primary scho
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# Moving, new schools, change and grief, sentence 3

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Grief comes and goes in waves: you may cry one moment and laugh the next, and laughing does not mean you have forgotten; talking, crying and keeping memories all help.

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**Who acts:** Grief, you · **What happens:** come, go, cry, laugh, not mean, forget · **To what, where:** waves, next, memories · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, you), 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:3
# text = Grief comes and goes in waves: you may cry one moment and laugh the next, and laughing does not mean you have forgotten; talking, crying and keeping memories all 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	cry	cry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	laugh	laugh	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	laughing	laugh	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
20	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	ccomp	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	ccomp	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	34	nsubj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	conj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=29:conj
32	memories	memory	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	_
33	all	all	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	34	advmod	_	_
34	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | Grief |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | present | Grief *not said here* |  |  | waves |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in wave=Location |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | may | you |  |  |  | moment |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **laugh** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the next |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent next=Theme |
| 5 | **laugh** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **mean** | present · do-support | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 7 | **forget** | present · perfect | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **talk** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 10 | **keep** | gerund |  | memories |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent memory=Theme |
| 11 | **help** | present |  |  |  |  |  | all *property* | 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:3`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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