--- title: Comforting phrases like "she's watching over you" can sometimes make… — Living with loss: keeping memories, and loss tha… · tree and pragmatics description: Comforting phrases like "she's watching over you" can sometimes make a child worry, and it is fine to ask what grown-ups mean. Who acts: body, Comforting phrases, grown ups. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (body, Comforting phrases, grown ups), 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:16 # text = Comforting phrases like "she's watching over you" can sometimes make a child worry, and it is fine to ask what grown-ups mean. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Comforting comforting ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 phrases phrase NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 3 like like ADP IN _ 7 mark _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 5 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 6 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 watching watch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 acl _ _ 8 over over ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 obl _ _ 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 11 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 12 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 13 advmod _ _ 13 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 worry worry NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 expl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:nsubj 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 21 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 conj _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:xcomp 24 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 28 obj _ _ 25 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=27:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 26 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 27 punct _ _ 27 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 28 mean mean VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 ccomp _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **watch** *in a quote* | present · progressive | body | Comforting phrases *not said here* | | | | over you | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent phrase=Theme | | 2 | **make** | can | Comforting phrases | a child worry | | | | sometimes *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset worry=Product | | 3 | **is** | present | Comforting phrases *not said here* | | | | | fine *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **mean** | present | grown ups | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | 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:16`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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. 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