--- title: How sad you feel about a loss depends on how much you cared, not on… — When someone dies: guilt, numbness and waves of… · tree and pragmatics description: How sad you feel about a loss depends on how much you cared, not on how big the animal was; laughing at someone's sadness makes them hide it. Who acts: you, animal, laughing, people. 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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 (you, animal, laughing, people), 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:15 # text = How sad you feel about a loss depends on how much you cared, not on how big the animal was; laughing at someone's sadness makes them hide it. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 sad sad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ _ 3 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 feel feel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 csubj _ _ 5 about about ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 loss loss NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 depends depend VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 on on SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 10 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 11 advmod _ _ 11 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 obj _ _ 12 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 cared care VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 16 on on ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 18 advmod _ _ 18 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 conj _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 21 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=8:punct 23 laughing laugh VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 28 csubj _ _ 24 at at ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 27 nmod:poss _ _ 26 's 's PART POS _ 25 case _ _ 27 sadness sadness NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 28 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 29 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 hide hide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ _ 31 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **feel** | present | you | | | | | about a loss; sad *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **depend** | present | | | | | | | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **care** | past | you | much | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **is** | past | the animal | | | | | big *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **laugh** | gerund | | | | someone's sadness | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **make** | present | laughing | people | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **hide** | infinitive | people *not said here* | animal | | | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | 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:15`. **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, 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. 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