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title: Some sad thoughts are true, like missing someone who has died; they… — Olympiad: thinking traps and what helps first ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: Some sad thoughts are true, like missing someone who has died; they are not traps, and grief has no timetable. Who acts: sad thoughts, thoughts, grief. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: thinking traps and what helps first ★★★» of the reflection course of Mova's primary school with its dependency t
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# Olympiad: thinking traps and what helps first ★★★, sentence 16

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Some sad thoughts are true, like missing someone who has died; they are not traps, and grief has no timetable.

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**Who acts:** sad thoughts, thoughts, grief · **What happens:** be, miss, die, not be, have · **To what, where:** someone, traps, timetable

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: thinking traps and what helps first ★★★» 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 (sad thoughts, thoughts, grief), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:reflection:032-olympiad-thinking-traps-and-what-helps-first.lesson:16
# text = Some sad thoughts are true, like missing someone who has died; they are not traps, and grief has no timetable.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = reflection
# lesson = 032-olympiad-thinking-traps-and-what-helps-first.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	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
2	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	thoughts	thought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	missing	miss	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
9	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	8	obj	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
11	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	died	die	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	traps	trap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	parataxis	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
22	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	23	det	_	_
23	timetable	timetable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	.	.	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 | **is** | present | some sad thoughts |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **miss** | gerund | some sad thoughts *not said here* | someone |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer someone=Stimulus |
| 3 | **die** | present · perfect |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **not** **is a** | present | thoughts *= thought* | traps |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **have** | present | grief | no timetable |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent timetable=Patient |

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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): 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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