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title: After a loss, the things you used to do with someone can hurt at fir… — Living with loss: keeping memories, and loss tha… · tree and pragmatics
description: After a loss, the things you used to do with someone can hurt at first, and later turn into the very things that make you feel close to them. Who acts: you, things, very things. A sentence of the lesson «Living with loss: keeping memories, and loss that isn't death» of the reflection course of Mova'
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# Living with loss: keeping memories, and loss that isn't death, sentence 0

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After a loss, the things you used to do with someone can hurt at first, and later turn into the very things that make you feel close to them.

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**Who acts:** you, things, very things · **What happens:** use, do, hurt, turn, make, feel · **To what, where:** things, very things, you

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Living with loss: keeping memories, and loss that isn't death» 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 (you, things, very things), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:reflection:003-living-with-loss-keeping-memories-and-loss-that-isn-t-death.lesson:0
# text = After a loss, the things you used to do with someone can hurt at first, and later turn into the very things that make you feel close to them.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = reflection
# lesson = 003-living-with-loss-keeping-memories-and-loss-that-isn-t-death.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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	loss	loss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	10	obl	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	hurt	hurt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	14	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	20	advmod	_	_
20	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
21	into	into	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	very	very	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
24	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
26	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	xcomp	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obl	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	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 | **use** | past | you | the things *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent thing=Theme clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **do** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with someone | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hurt** | can | the things |  |  |  | after a loss |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **turn** | infinitive | the things *not said here* |  |  | the very things |  | late *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into thing=Trajectory |
| 5 | **make** | present | the very things | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **feel** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | close *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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