--- title: Jamie skipped visiting Grandad on Sunday to play football, and Grand… — When someone dies: guilt, numbness and waves of… · tree and pragmatics description: Jamie skipped visiting Grandad on Sunday to play football, and Grandad died on the Tuesday; every night in bed the same thought plays like a song stuck on repeat: "I could've gone. Who acts: Jamie, Grandad, same thought, I. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jamie, Grandad, same thought, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:reflection:001-when-someone-dies-guilt-numbness-and-waves-of-grief.lesson:1 # text = Jamie skipped visiting Grandad on Sunday to play football, and Grandad died on the Tuesday; every night in bed the same thought plays like a song stuck on repeat: "I could've gone. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = reflection # lesson = 001-when-someone-dies-guilt-numbness-and-waves-of-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): R5-strong ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Jamie Jamie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 skipped skip VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 visiting visit VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 xcomp _ _ 4 Grandad Grandad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 5 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 Sunday Sunday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 play play VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ _ 9 football football NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 Grandad Grandad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 14 on on ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 Tuesday Tuesday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 18 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 19 det _ _ 19 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:obl:unmarked 20 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:obl 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 thought thought NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 plays play VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 26 like like ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 song song NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 29 stuck stick VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 acl _ _ 30 on on ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 repeat repeat NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 32 : : PUNCT : _ 37 punct _ _ 33 " " PUNCT `` _ 37 punct _ _ 34 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 35 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 36 've have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 37 aux _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=37:aux|HaikuPos=AUX:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 gone go VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 2 parataxis _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: character - polarity: neg - teacher: changed act=narrate | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **skip** | past | Jamie | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **visit** | gerund | Jamie *not said here* | Grandad | | | sunday | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grandad=Co-Agent | | 3 | **play** | to-infinitive | Jamie *not said here* | football | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent football=Theme | | 4 | **die** | past | Grandad | | | | tuesday | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 5 | **play** | present | the same thought | | | | night | like a song | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **stick** | participle | | a song *not said here* | | repeat | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on repeat=Destination | | 7 | **go** *in a quote* | could · perfect | I | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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:reflection:001-when-someone-dies-guilt-numbness-and-waves-of-grief.lesson:1`. **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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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. 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