--- title: Things that often help are saying the looping thought to a trusted a… — When someone dies: guilt, numbness and waves of… · tree and pragmatics description: Things that often help are saying the looping thought to a trusted adult, writing a letter to the person, keeping something of theirs and saying their name; pretending and avoiding usually make it heavier. Who acts: Things, pretending, families. 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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 (Things, pretending, families), 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:20 # text = Things that often help are saying the looping thought to a trusted adult, writing a letter to the person, keeping something of theirs and saying their name; pretending and avoiding usually make it heavier. # 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 ×1 1 Things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 2 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 4 nsubj _ _ 3 often often ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 help help VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 acl:relcl _ _ 5 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:det 8 looping looping ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 thought thought NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 trusted trust VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 amod _ _ 13 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 writing write VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 conj _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 letter letter NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:nmod 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 keeping keep VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 conj _ _ 23 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 22 obj _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 theirs their PRON PRP Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 saying say VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 conj _ _ 28 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 ; ; PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 31 pretending pretend VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 35 csubj _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 avoiding avoid VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 31 conj _ _ 34 usually usually ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 parataxis _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ _ 37 heavier heavy ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 35 xcomp _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **help** | present | Things | | | | | often *property* | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · progressive | Things | the looping thought | a trusted adult | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent thought=Topic to adult=Recipient | | 3 | **trust** | participle | | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **write** | gerund | Things *not said here* | a letter | the person | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent letter=Topic to person=Recipient | | 5 | **keep** | gerund | Things *not said here* | something | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Things *not said here* | families's name | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent name=Topic | | 7 | **pretend** | gerund | | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **avoid** | gerund | | | | | | | vn avoid-52 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **make** | infinitive | pretending | name | | | | heavy, usually *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | | 10 | **name** | | families *= family* | | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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:20`. **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 ×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/). - ← previous: [When someone dies: guilt, numbness and…, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/1-when-someone-dies-guilt-numbness-and-waves-of-grief/19/) - next →: [Grief has no timetable: houses, annive…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/2-grief-has-no-timetable-houses-anniversaries-and-big-questions/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/1-when-someone-dies-guilt-numbness-and-waves-of-grief/)