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title: Loss also brings big questions, like "Where is he now?" or "Will Mum… — Grief has no timetable: houses, anniversaries an… · tree and pragmatics
description: Loss also brings big questions, like "Where is he now?" or "Will Mum and Dad die too?"; families believe different things, nobody can know for sure, and asking a trusted adult out loud usually makes the scary thought quieter than keeping it alone at night. Who acts: Loss, Mum, families, nobody. A se
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# Grief has no timetable: houses, anniversaries and big questions, sentence 4

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Loss also brings big questions, like "Where is he now?" or "Will Mum and Dad die too?"; families believe different things, nobody can know for sure, and asking a trusted adult out loud usually makes the scary thought quieter than keeping it alone at night.

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**Who acts:** Loss, Mum, families, nobody, trusted adult · **What happens:** bring, be, die, believe, know, ask · **To what, where:** big questions, different things, scary thought, question · **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 (Loss, Mum, families, nobody), 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:4
# text = Loss also brings big questions, like "Where is he now?" or "Will Mum and Dad die too?"; families believe different things, nobody can know for sure, and asking a trusted adult out loud usually makes the scary thought quieter than keeping it alone at night.
# 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	Loss	loss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	also	also	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	brings	bring	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	questions	question	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	3	conj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
12	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	_
17	Will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
18	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	Dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
21	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
22	too	too	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
27	believe	believe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
28	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	33	nsubj	_	_
32	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	parataxis	_	_
34	for	for	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	obl	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	asking	ask	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	trusted	trust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	41	amod	_	_
41	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
42	out	out	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
43	loud	loud	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
44	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
45	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	ccomp	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
47	scary	scary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obj	_	_
49	quieter	quiet	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	45	xcomp	_	_
50	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	51	mark	_	_
51	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	49	advcl	_	_
52	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	obj	_	_
53	alone	alone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	xcomp	_	_
54	at	at	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=53:obl
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=decl, act=assert, polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | present | Loss | big questions |  |  | now |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent question=Theme |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Loss |  |  |  |  | where *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **die** *in a quote* | future | Mum and Dad |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **believe** | present | families | different things |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus |
| 5 | **know** | can | nobody |  |  |  |  | for sure | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | a trusted adult |  |  |  |  | loud *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 7 | **trust** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **make** | present |  | the scary thought |  |  |  | quiet, usually *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset thought=Product |
| 9 | **keep** | gerund |  | question |  |  | night | alone *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

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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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