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# Grief has no timetable: houses, anniversaries and big questions, sentence 8

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When a young person dies, the world can suddenly feel unsafe; the fear is usually big at first and shrinks with time, and most children grow up safe.

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**Who acts:** young person, world, fear, most children · **What happens:** die, feel, be, shrink, grow up

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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 (young person, world, fear, most children), 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:8
# text = When a young person dies, the world can suddenly feel unsafe; the fear is usually big at first and shrinks with time, and most children grow up safe.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	dies	die	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	unsafe	unsafe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:conj
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	18	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	shrinks	shrink	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	28	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBS:Degree=Sup
28	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
29	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
30	up	up	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	_
31	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	xcomp	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **die** | present | a young person |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **feel** | can | the world |  |  |  |  | suddenly, unsafe *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | present | the fear |  |  |  |  | big, usually *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **shrink** | present | the world *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **grow up** | present | most children |  |  |  |  | safe *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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