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title: People grieve in different ways: some cry, some go quiet, some keep… — The old dog, the vet and the hardest goodbye · tree and pragmatics
description: People grieve in different ways: some cry, some go quiet, some keep busy; no tears does not mean no love. Who acts: People, some, tears. 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 pra
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# The old dog, the vet and the hardest goodbye, sentence 12

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People grieve in different ways: some cry, some go quiet, some keep busy; no tears does not mean no love.

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**Who acts:** People, some, tears · **What happens:** grieve, keep, not mean · **To what, where:** different ways, love

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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 (People, some, tears), 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:12
# text = People grieve in different ways: some cry, some go quiet, some keep busy; no tears does not mean no love.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	grieve	grieve	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
8	cry	cry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:det
11	go	go	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	quiet	quiet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:det
15	keep	keep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
16	busy	busy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:amod
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
18	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	19	det	_	_
19	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
20	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
23	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	24	det	_	_
24	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **grieve** | present | People |  |  | different ways  some cry and go quiet and keep |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **keep** |  | some |  |  |  |  | busy *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **mean** | present · do-support | no tears | no love |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=Topic |

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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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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