--- title: Grown-ups cry too, especially about something they loved for a long… — Living with loss: keeping memories, and loss tha… · tree and pragmatics description: Grown-ups cry too, especially about something they loved for a long time; seeing a parent cry can feel strange, but it is human. Who acts: Grown ups, ups, seeing, cry. 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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 (Grown ups, ups, seeing, cry), 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:9 # text = Grown-ups cry too, especially about something they loved for a long time; seeing a parent cry can feel strange, but it is human. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 compound _ _ 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ _ 3 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 cry cry VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 too too ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 especially especially ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 8 about about ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 4 obl _ _ 10 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 loved love VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ _ 12 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 17 seeing see VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 csubj _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 parent parent NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 cry cry NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 21 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 23 strange strange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 xcomp _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 but but CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 28 human human ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | present | Grown ups | | | | | about something | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about something=Topic | | 3 | **love** | past | ups *= up* | | | | time | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **see** | gerund | | a parent cry | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cry=Stimulus | | 5 | **feel** | can | seeing | | | | | strange *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 6 | **is** | present | cry | | | | | human *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: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): 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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