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title: People can grieve for a famous person they never met; when Queen Eli… — Accidents, wars and deaths on the news · tree and pragmatics
description: People can grieve for a famous person they never met; when Queen Elizabeth II died in 2022, after 70 years as queen, on TV and on coins and stamps, she felt part of many people's lives, and crowds left flowers at royal palaces. Who acts: People, Elizabeth, crowds. A sentence of the lesson «Accidents
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# Accidents, wars and deaths on the news, sentence 10

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People can grieve for a famous person they never met; when Queen Elizabeth II died in 2022, after 70 years as queen, on TV and on coins and stamps, she felt part of many people's lives, and crowds left flowers at royal palaces.

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**Who acts:** People, Elizabeth, crowds · **What happens:** grieve, not meet, die, feel, leave · **To what, where:** famous person, part, flowers, royal palaces

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Accidents, wars and deaths on the news» 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, Elizabeth, crowds), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:060-accidents-wars-and-deaths-on-the-news.lesson:10
# text = People can grieve for a famous person they never met; when Queen Elizabeth II died in 2022, after 70 years as queen, on TV and on coins and stamps, she felt part of many people's lives, and crowds left flowers at royal palaces.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 060-accidents-wars-and-deaths-on-the-news.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	grieve	grieve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
13	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:desc	_	_
14	Elizabeth	Elizabeth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	II	II	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	14	flat	_	_
16	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	2022	2022	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	after	after	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	70	70	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	TV	TV	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	coins	coin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	stamps	stamp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	conj	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
34	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=16:conj
36	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
38	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nmod:poss	_	_
40	's	's	PART	POS	_	39	case	_	_
41	lives	life	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nmod	_	_
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=44:punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
44	crowds	crowd	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	nsubj	_	_
45	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	conj	_	_
46	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	obj	_	_
47	at	at	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	palaces	palace	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	obl	_	_
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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** | can | People |  |  |  |  | for a famous person | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **not** **meet** | past | people | a famous person *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **die** | past | Elizabeth  Queen |  |  |  | year | on TV and coins and stamps; in 2022 | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 2022=Attribute |
| 4 | **feel** | past | Elizabeth | part of many people's lives |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme |
| 5 | **leave** | past | crowds | flowers |  | royal palaces |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent flower=Theme at palace=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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**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-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.

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