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title: Places such as a grandparent's house hold memories, so losing them c… — Grief has no timetable: houses, anniversaries an… · tree and pragmatics
description: Places such as a grandparent's house hold memories, so losing them can feel like another loss; "bricks and mortar" means just a building. Who acts: Places, bricks. A sentence of the lesson «Grief has no timetable: houses, anniversaries and big questions» of the reflection course of Mova's primary sc
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# Grief has no timetable: houses, anniversaries and big questions, sentence 6

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Places such as a grandparent's house hold memories, so losing them can feel like another loss; "bricks and mortar" means just a building.

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**Who acts:** Places, bricks · **What happens:** hold, lose, feel, mean · **To what, where:** memories, building

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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 (Places, bricks), 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:6
# text = Places such as a grandparent's house hold memories, so losing them can feel like another loss; "bricks and mortar" means just a building.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
2	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	9	case	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	2	fixed	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	grandparent	grandparent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nsubj
8	hold	hold	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl	_	_
9	memories	memory	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	losing	lose	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:advcl
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
16	like	like	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
18	loss	loss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	_
21	bricks	brick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	mortar	mortar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct
25	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	ccomp	_	_
26	just	just	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	building	building	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	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 | **hold** | present | Places  a grandparent's house *not said here* | memories |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent memory=Theme |
| 2 | **lose** | gerund |  | memories *= memory* |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality |
| 3 | **feel** | can | Places  a grandparent's house |  |  |  |  | like another loss | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **mean** | present | bricks and mortar | a building |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent building=Topic |

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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:6`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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