--- title: Being angry at a brother or sister for something they cannot help, l… — Living with loss: keeping memories, and loss tha… · tree and pragmatics description: Being angry at a brother or sister for something they cannot help, like an allergy, is normal, but it is not fair to them. Who acts: brother, allergy. 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 with its d --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/3-living-with-loss-keeping-memories-and-loss-that-isn-t-death/15/) [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/) / [Living with loss: keeping memories, an…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/3-living-with-loss-keeping-memories-and-loss-that-isn-t-death/) / 15 # Living with loss: keeping memories, and loss that isn't death, sentence 15 Being angry at a brother or sister for something they cannot help, like an allergy, is normal, but it is not fair to them. **Who acts:** brother, allergy · **What happens:** be, not help, not be · **To what, where:** brother 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 (brother, allergy), 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:15 # text = Being angry at a brother or sister for something they cannot help, like an allergy, is normal, but it is not fair 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): no change 1 Being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 cop _ _ 2 angry angry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 csubj _ _ 3 at at ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 6 or or CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 7 nmod _ _ 10 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 11 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 12 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 13 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 acl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 15 like like ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 allergy allergy NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 20 normal normal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 but but CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 25 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 26 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 conj _ _ 27 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 20 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | gerund | | | | | | at a brother or sister for something; angry *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **help** | can | brother | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | present | | | | | | like a allergy; normal *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **is** | present | allergy | | brother | | | fair *property* | tree rules | 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:003-living-with-loss-keeping-memories-and-loss-that-isn-t-death.lesson:15`. **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): no change. **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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