--- title: Watching news reports about a death again and again tends to keep th… — Grief has no timetable: houses, anniversaries an… · tree and pragmatics description: Watching news reports about a death again and again tends to keep the fear fresh rather than calm it. A sentence of the lesson «Grief has no timetable: houses, anniversaries and big questions» of the reflection course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/2-grief-has-no-timetable-houses-anniversaries-and-big-questions/9/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Reflection](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/) / [Grief has no timetable: houses, annive…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/2-grief-has-no-timetable-houses-anniversaries-and-big-questions/) / 9 # Grief has no timetable: houses, anniversaries and big questions, sentence 9 Watching news reports about a death again and again tends to keep the fear fresh rather than calm it. **What happens:** watch, tend, keep · **To what, where:** news reports, fear 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: 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:9 # text = Watching news reports about a death again and again tends to keep the fear fresh rather than calm it. # 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 1 Watching watch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 2 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 reports report NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 4 about about ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 again again ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 again again ADV RB _ 7 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:advmod 10 tends tend VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 fear fear NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 fresh fresh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 xcomp _ _ 16 rather rather ADV RB ExtPos=CCONJ 18 cc _ _ 17 than than ADP IN _ 16 fixed _ _ 18 calm calm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 conj _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **watch** | gerund | | news reports | | | again | about a death | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent report=Theme | | 2 | **tend** | present | | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **keep** | to-infinitive | | the fear | | | | fresh *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fear=Theme | 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:9`. **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. **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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