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title: Crying is a healthy way to let sadness out, for dads and everyone el… — The old dog, the vet and the hardest goodbye · tree and pragmatics
description: Crying is a healthy way to let sadness out, for dads and everyone else; it is not weakness. Who acts: sadness. A sentence of the lesson «The old dog, the vet and the hardest goodbye» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The old dog, the vet and the hardest goodbye, sentence 10

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Crying is a healthy way to let sadness out, for dads and everyone else; it is not weakness.

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**Who acts:** sadness · **What happens:** cry, be, let out, not be · **To what, where:** healthy way, sadness, weakness

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The old dog, the vet and the hardest goodbye» 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 (sadness), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:056-the-old-dog-the-vet-and-the-hardest-goodbye.lesson:10
# text = Crying is a healthy way to let sadness out, for dads and everyone else; it is not weakness.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 056-the-old-dog-the-vet-and-the-hardest-goodbye.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	Crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Ger	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	healthy	healthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
8	sadness	sadness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	dads	dad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	12	conj	_	_
15	else	else	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	weakness	weakness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | a healthy way |  |  |  | for dads | tree rules |
| 3 | **let out** | to-infinitive |  | sadness |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sadness=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **is a** | present | sadness | weakness |  |  |  |  | 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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**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:056-the-old-dog-the-vet-and-the-hardest-goodbye.lesson:10`.

**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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