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title: "Existential" questions are big questions about life and why we are… — Grief has no timetable: houses, anniversaries an… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Existential" questions are big questions about life and why we are here; almost everyone wonders about them sometimes. Who acts: Existential questions, we, everyone. A sentence of the lesson «Grief has no timetable: houses, anniversaries and big questions» of the reflection course of Mova's primary
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# Grief has no timetable: houses, anniversaries and big questions, sentence 14

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"Existential" questions are big questions about life and why we are here; almost everyone wonders about them sometimes.

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**Who acts:** Existential questions, we, everyone · **What happens:** be, wonder · **To what, where:** big questions

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Grief has no timetable: houses, anniversaries and big questions» 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 (Existential questions, we, everyone), 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:14
# text = "Existential" questions are big questions about life and why we are here; almost everyone wonders about them sometimes.
# 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): no change
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Existential	existential	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	questions	question	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	questions	question	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
8	about	about	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
12	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	acl	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	18	nsubj	_	_
18	wonders	wonder	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
19	about	about	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	_
21	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	18	advmod	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Existential questions | big questions |  |  |  | about life | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | we |  |  |  |  | here *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | present | everyone |  |  |  |  | about people; sometimes *property* | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about they=Stimulus |

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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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**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:14`.

**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): no change. **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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