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title: Forgetting about the person for a while is how minds heal; it does n… — When a grandparent dies · tree and pragmatics
description: Forgetting about the person for a while is how minds heal; it does not mean the love has gone. Who acts: it, love. 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 clause.
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# When a grandparent dies, sentence 17

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Forgetting about the person for a while is how minds heal; it does not mean the love has gone.

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**Who acts:** it, love · **What happens:** forget, be, not mean, go · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (it, love), 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:17
# text = Forgetting about the person for a while is how minds heal; it does not mean the love has gone.
# 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): no change
1	Forgetting	forget	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	nsubj	_	_
2	about	about	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
10	minds	mind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	heal	heal	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	ccomp	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- 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 | **forget** | gerund |  |  |  |  | while | about the person | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | heal *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **mean** | present · do-support | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **go** | present · perfect | the love |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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**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:17`.

**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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