--- title: Writing a letter you can never send can still help the feelings, and… — Grief has no timetable: houses, anniversaries an… · tree and pragmatics description: Writing a letter you can never send can still help the feelings, and saying thank you to people while you can is a good habit, not a debt. Who acts: you, Writing. 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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 (you, Writing), 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:19 # text = Writing a letter you can never send can still help the feelings, and saying thank you to people while you can is a good habit, not a debt. # 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 Writing write VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 csubj _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 letter letter NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 5 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 6 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 7 send send VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 acl:relcl _ _ 8 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 9 still still ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 feelings feeling NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 15 saying say VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 26 csubj _ _ 16 thank thank VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 ccomp _ _ 17 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 20 while while SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 21 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 22 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 habit habit NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 30 advmod _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 debt debt NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **write** | gerund | | a letter | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Theme | | 2 | **not** **send** | can | you | a letter *not said here* | | | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Theme | | 3 | **help** | can | Writing | the feelings | | | still | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feeling=Beneficiary | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **thank** *speech: thank* | present | | | you | | | to people | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | | 6 | **is a** | can | you | a good habit and a debt | | | | | 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:19`. **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. 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