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title: An anniversary is the date something happened, years later; a sad da… — Grief has no timetable: houses, anniversaries an… · tree and pragmatics
description: An anniversary is the date something happened, years later; a sad date and a happy date such as a birthday can be the same day, and people often find ways to hold both, like lighting a candle. Who acts: anniversary, something, people. A sentence of the lesson «Grief has no timetable: houses, anniver
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# Grief has no timetable: houses, anniversaries and big questions, sentence 17

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An anniversary is the date something happened, years later; a sad date and a happy date such as a birthday can be the same day, and people often find ways to hold both, like lighting a candle.

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**Who acts:** anniversary, something, people · **What happens:** be, happen, find, hold, light · **To what, where:** date, same day, ways, both, candle

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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 (anniversary, something, 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:17
# text = An anniversary is the date something happened, years later; a sad date and a happy date such as a birthday can be the same day, and people often find ways to hold both, like lighting a candle.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	anniversary	anniversary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	date	date	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	7	nsubj	_	_
7	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	date	date	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	date	date	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
19	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	22	case	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	fixed	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	birthday	birthday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:nmod
23	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	cop	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
31	often	often	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
33	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	acl	_	_
36	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	35	obj	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
39	lighting	light	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	35	advcl	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	candle	candle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | a anniversary | the date and a sad date and a happy date such a birthday and the same day |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **happen** | past | something | the date and a sad date and a happy date such a birthday and the same day *not said here* |  |  |  | late *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | can | a anniversary *not said here* | the same day |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **find** | present | people | ways |  |  |  | often *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic |
| 5 | **hold** | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | both |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent both=Theme |
| 6 | **light** | gerund | people *not said here* | a candle |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent candle=Product |

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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): R5-strong ×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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