--- title: People grieve in different ways; some need normal things like playin… — Grief has no timetable: houses, anniversaries an… · tree and pragmatics description: People grieve in different ways; some need normal things like playing and laughing to cope, and laughing does not mean someone is not sad. Who acts: People, some, normal things, laughing. 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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 (People, some, normal things, laughing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:reflection:002-grief-has-no-timetable-houses-anniversaries-and-big-questions.lesson:11 # text = People grieve in different ways; some need normal things like playing and laughing to cope, and laughing does not mean someone is not sad. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = reflection # lesson = 002-grief-has-no-timetable-houses-anniversaries-and-big-questions.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 People people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 grieve grieve VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 ways way NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 6 ; ; PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 7 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 8 nsubj _ _ 8 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 9 normal normal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 11 like like SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 12 playing play VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 acl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 laughing laugh VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 conj _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 cope cope VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 19 laughing laugh VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:nsubj 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 12 conj _ _ 23 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 26 nsubj _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 25 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 26 sad sad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 ccomp _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grieve** | present | People | | | different ways | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **need** | present | some | normal things | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot thing=Theme | | 3 | **play** | gerund | normal things *not said here* | | | | | | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **laugh** | gerund | normal things *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **cope** | to-infinitive | normal things *not said here* | | | | | | vn cope-83-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **laugh** | gerund | | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **not** **mean** | present · do-support | laughing | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **not** **is** | present | someone | | | | | sad *property* | tree rules | 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:002-grief-has-no-timetable-houses-anniversaries-and-big-questions.lesson:11`. **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): 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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