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title: Children grieve in different ways: some talk, some cry, some play as… — When a grandparent dies · tree and pragmatics
description: Children grieve in different ways: some talk, some cry, some play as usual; grief can come later, in waves. Who acts: Children, some, grief. A sentence of the lesson «When a grandparent dies» 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 grandparent dies, sentence 10

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Children grieve in different ways: some talk, some cry, some play as usual; grief can come later, in waves.

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**Who acts:** Children, some, grief · **What happens:** grieve, play, come · **To what, where:** different ways, waves

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This is a sentence of the lesson «When a grandparent dies» 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 (Children, some, grief), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:058-when-a-grandparent-dies.lesson:10
# text = Children grieve in different ways: some talk, some cry, some play as usual; grief can come later, in waves.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 058-when-a-grandparent-dies.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Children	child	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	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
11	cry	cry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	some	some	PRON	DT	PronType=Ind	14	nsubj	_	_
14	play	play	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	obl	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
18	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
21	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	20	advmod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grieve** | present | Children |  |  | different ways  some talk and some cry |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **play** | present | some |  |  |  |  | as usual | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **come** | can | grief |  |  | waves |  | late *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wave=Location |

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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:058-when-a-grandparent-dies.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): 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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