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title: What helped Jamie was telling Mum the Sunday thought out loud, and s… — When someone dies: guilt, numbness and waves of… · tree and pragmatics
description: What helped Jamie was telling Mum the Sunday thought out loud, and she told him Grandad watched his match videos on her phone and was proud; what did not help was pretending at school that he was fine. Who acts: Sunday, Mum, Grandad. A sentence of the lesson «When someone dies: guilt, numbness and w
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# When someone dies: guilt, numbness and waves of grief, sentence 6

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What helped Jamie was telling Mum the Sunday thought out loud, and she told him Grandad watched his match videos on her phone and was proud; what did not help was pretending at school that he was fine.

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**Who acts:** Sunday, Mum, Grandad · **What happens:** help, be, think out, tell, watch, not help · **To what, where:** Jamie, Mum, match videos, phone, school · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «When someone dies: guilt, numbness and waves of grief» of the reflection 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 (Sunday, Mum, Grandad), 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:6
# text = What helped Jamie was telling Mum the Sunday thought out loud, and she told him Grandad watched his match videos on her phone and was proud; what did not help was pretending at school that he was fine.
# 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, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	helped	help	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	csubj	_	_
3	Jamie	Jamie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	Mum	Mum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	iobj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:iobj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
10	out	out	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:advmod
11	loud	loud	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	iobj	_	_
17	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	watched	watch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	ccomp	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	match	match	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	videos	video	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
28	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct
29	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	32	nsubj	_	_
30	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
32	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	csubj	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=34:cop
34	pretending	pretend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
35	at	at	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
37	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
38	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
39	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	cop	_	_
40	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	ccomp	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | past |  |  | Jamie |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jamie=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **be** *speech: assert* | past |  |  | Mum |  |  | tell *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **think out** *speech: other* | past | the Sunday |  |  |  |  | loud *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Mum |  | Jamie |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **watch** | past | Grandad | Grandad's match videos |  | Mum's phone |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent video=Theme |
| 6 | **is** | past | Grandad *not said here* |  |  |  |  | proud *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **not** **help** | past · do-support |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **pretend** | past · progressive |  |  |  | school |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **is** | past | Grandad |  |  |  |  | fine *property* | tree rules |

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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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**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, R5-strong ×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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