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title: Grief comes in waves: a grieving person can laugh one moment and cry… — Olympiad: reading hidden feelings in hard times… · tree and pragmatics
description: Grief comes in waves: a grieving person can laugh one moment and cry the next, and both feelings are real. Who acts: Grief, grieving person, feelings. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: reading hidden feelings in hard times ★★★» of the reflection course of Mova's primary school with its dependency 
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# Olympiad: reading hidden feelings in hard times ★★★, sentence 9

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Grief comes in waves: a grieving person can laugh one moment and cry the next, and both feelings are real.

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**Who acts:** Grief, grieving person, feelings · **What happens:** come, grieve, laugh, cry, be · **To what, where:** waves, next

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: reading hidden feelings in hard times ★★★» 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 (Grief, grieving person, feelings), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:reflection:031-olympiad-reading-hidden-feelings-in-hard-times.lesson:9
# text = Grief comes in waves: a grieving person can laugh one moment and cry the next, and both feelings are real.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = reflection
# lesson = 031-olympiad-reading-hidden-feelings-in-hard-times.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	Grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	grieving	grieve	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	amod	_	_
8	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	laugh	laugh	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	cry	cry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
20	feelings	feeling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
21	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | Grief |  |  | waves |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wave=Location |
| 2 | **grieve** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **laugh** | can | a grieving person |  |  |  | moment |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **cry** *speech: express* | infinitive | a grieving person *not said here* | the next |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | present | both feelings |  |  |  |  | real *property* | tree rules |

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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): 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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