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title: Losing someone can happen in other ways than death, such as a parent… — Grief has no timetable: houses, anniversaries an… · tree and pragmatics
description: Losing someone can happen in other ways than death, such as a parent going to prison ("doing time"); a parent's mistake is not the child's mistake. Who acts: Losing, parent, mistake. A sentence of the lesson «Grief has no timetable: houses, anniversaries and big questions» of the reflection course o
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# Grief has no timetable: houses, anniversaries and big questions, sentence 15

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Losing someone can happen in other ways than death, such as a parent going to prison ("doing time"); a parent's mistake is not the child's mistake.

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**Who acts:** Losing, parent, mistake · **What happens:** lose, happen, go, do, not be, mistake · **To what, where:** someone, other ways, prison, mistake · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Losing, parent, mistake), 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:15
# text = Losing someone can happen in other ways than death, such as a parent going to prison ("doing time"); a parent's mistake is not the child's mistake.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Losing	lose	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	csubj	_	_
2	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	1	obj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	than	than	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=SCONJ	15	mark	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	fixed	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	appos	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:case|HaikuPos=ADP:TO:_
17	prison	prison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	20	punct	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
20	doing	do	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	ccomp	_	_
21	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct
23	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	20	punct	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	's	's	PART	POS	_	26	case	_	_
28	mistake	mistake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
30	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	34	advmod	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod:poss	_	_
33	's	's	PART	POS	_	32	case	_	_
34	mistake	mistake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **lose** | gerund |  | someone |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Eventuality |
| 2 | **happen** | can | Losing |  |  | other ways than death |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in way=Location |
| 3 | **go** | gerund | a parent |  |  | prison |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to prison=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **do** *in a quote* | gerund | a parent *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **not** **is a** | present | a parent's mistake | the child's mistake |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **mistake** |  | a parent |  |  |  |  |  | nom mistake «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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): R6-punct-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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