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title: Loss is not only death: a best friend moving abroad, a dog that has… — Living with loss: keeping memories, and loss tha… · tree and pragmatics
description: Loss is not only death: a best friend moving abroad, a dog that has to be rehomed, a mum changed by illness, or a family that goes silent can all leave a hole, and the feelings are real even when nobody has died. Who acts: Loss, best friend, dog, family. A sentence of the lesson «Living with loss: k
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# Living with loss: keeping memories, and loss that isn't death, sentence 4

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Loss is not only death: a best friend moving abroad, a dog that has to be rehomed, a mum changed by illness, or a family that goes silent can all leave a hole, and the feelings are real even when nobody has died.

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**Who acts:** Loss, best friend, dog, family, feelings, nobody · **What happens:** not be, move, have, rehom, change, go · **To what, where:** death, dog, mum, hole

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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 (Loss, best friend, dog, family), 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:4
# text = Loss is not only death: a best friend moving abroad, a dog that has to be rehomed, a mum changed by illness, or a family that goes silent can all leave a hole, and the feelings are real even when nobody has died.
# 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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Loss	loss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
5	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	9	amod	_	_
9	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
10	moving	move	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
11	abroad	abroad	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj:pass	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:nsubj:pass
16	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:aux|HaikuPos=AUX:VBZ:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	rehomed	rehom	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	xcomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:acl:relcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
23	changed	change	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
24	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	illness	illness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
30	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
31	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:acl:relcl
32	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	xcomp	_	_
33	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	all	all	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	feelings	feeling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	nsubj	_	_
42	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	cop	_	_
43	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
44	even	even	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
45	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	48	mark	_	_
46	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	48	nsubj	_	_
47	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	48	aux	_	_
48	died	die	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	43	advcl	_	_
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **not** **is a** | present | Loss | death |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **move** | gerund | a best friend and a dog and a mum or a family *not said here* |  |  |  |  | abroad *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | present · passive |  | a dog |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **rehom** | to-infinitive · passive | a dog *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **change** | participle |  | a mum *not said here* |  |  |  | by illness | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **go** | present | a family |  |  |  |  | silent *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **leave** | can | a best friend and a dog and a mum or a family | a hole |  |  |  | all *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Theme |
| 8 | **is** | present | the feelings |  |  |  |  | real *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **die** | present · perfect | nobody |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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 ×4, R7-rel-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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