--- title: Many children start thinking about death around nine or ten; it can… — Grief has no timetable: houses, anniversaries an… · tree and pragmatics description: Many children start thinking about death around nine or ten; it can be scary, talking about it helps, and most people live a very long time. Who acts: Many children, death, most 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 (Many children, death, most people), 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:13 # text = Many children start thinking about death around nine or ten; it can be scary, talking about it helps, and most people live a very long time. # 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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 start start VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 thinking think VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 xcomp _ _ 5 about about ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 7 around around ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 nine nine NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 obl _ _ 9 or or CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=8:cc 10 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 conj _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 13 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 15 cop _ _ 15 scary scary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 talking talk VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 20 nsubj _ _ 18 about about ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obl _ _ 20 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:parataxis 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=15:cc 23 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 24 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBS:Degree=Sup 24 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 27 very very ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl:unmarked _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **start** | present | Many children | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | Many children *not said here* | | | nine | | about death | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about death=Topic | | 3 | **is** | can | death | | | | | scary *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **talk** | gerund | | | | | | about death | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic | | 5 | **help** | present | | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **live** | present | most people | | | | time | | vn exist-47.1-1 «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:002-grief-has-no-timetable-houses-anniversaries-and-big-questions.lesson:13`. **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): R1-cc-next ×2, 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. 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