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title: People grieve at different speeds: Tyler wants a new dog the next da… — Garden burials, wild animals and a new pet «too… · tree and pragmatics
description: People grieve at different speeds: Tyler wants a new dog the next day, Chloe is furious when a new hamster arrives after nine days, and Ruby keeps her empty tank for months; a new pet never replaces the old one, and there is no timetable. Who acts: People, Tyler, Chloe, new hamster. A sentence of th
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# Garden burials, wild animals and a new pet «too soon», sentence 3

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People grieve at different speeds: Tyler wants a new dog the next day, Chloe is furious when a new hamster arrives after nine days, and Ruby keeps her empty tank for months; a new pet never replaces the old one, and there is no timetable.

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**Who acts:** People, Tyler, Chloe, new hamster, Ruby, new pet · **What happens:** grieve, want, be, arrive, keep, not replace · **To what, where:** different speeds, new dog, empty tank, old one

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Garden burials, wild animals and a new pet «too soon»» 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, Tyler, Chloe, new hamster), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:057-garden-burials-wild-animals-and-a-new-pet-too-soon.lesson:3
# text = People grieve at different speeds: Tyler wants a new dog the next day, Chloe is furious when a new hamster arrives after nine days, and Ruby keeps her empty tank for months; a new pet never replaces the old one, and there is no timetable.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 057-garden-burials-wild-animals-and-a-new-pet-too-soon.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
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	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	speeds	speed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	Tyler	Tyler	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	wants	want	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	Chloe	Chloe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	furious	furious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
19	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	hamster	hamster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	arrives	arrive	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
24	after	after	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	Ruby	Ruby	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
31	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
32	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	tank	tank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
34	for	for	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:obl
36	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	pet	pet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
40	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	41	advmod	_	_
41	replaces	replace	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
47	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	48	expl	_	_
48	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj
49	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	50	det	_	_
50	timetable	timetable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nsubj	_	_
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **grieve** | present | People |  |  | different speeds |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **want** | present | Tyler | a new dog |  |  | day |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot dog=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | Chloe |  |  |  |  | furious *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **arrive** | present | a new hamster |  |  |  | day |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **keep** | present | Ruby | Ruby's empty tank |  |  | month |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tank=Theme |
| 6 | **not** **replace** | present | a new pet | the old one |  |  |  |  | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme one=Co-Theme |
| 7 | **be** | present | no timetable |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 ×2, 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.

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

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