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title: The Bible says Christians should «mourn with those who mourn», even… — When a small pet dies: fish, hamsters and budgies · tree and pragmatics
description: The Bible says Christians should «mourn with those who mourn», even for small losses. Who acts: Bible, Christians. A sentence of the lesson «When a small pet dies: fish, hamsters and budgies» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# When a small pet dies: fish, hamsters and budgies, sentence 16

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The Bible says Christians should «mourn with those who mourn», even for small losses.

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**Who acts:** Bible, Christians · **What happens:** say, mourn · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «When a small pet dies: fish, hamsters and budgies» of the religion ethics 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 (Bible, Christians), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:055-when-a-small-pet-dies-fish-hamsters-and-budgies.lesson:16
# text = The Bible says Christians should «mourn with those who mourn», even for small losses.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 055-when-a-small-pet-dies-fish-hamsters-and-budgies.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Bible	Bible	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Christians	Christian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
5	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
7	mourn	mourn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	7	obl	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	mourn	mourn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	even	even	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	losses	loss	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the Bible |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **mourn** *in a quote* | should | Christians |  |  |  |  | with those; for small losses | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for loss=Attribute |
| 3 | **mourn** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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**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:religion-ethics:055-when-a-small-pet-dies-fish-hamsters-and-budgies.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): R8-pos-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.

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

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