--- title: People can feel real sadness for strangers, like a famous footballer… — Accidents, wars and deaths on the news · tree and pragmatics description: People can feel real sadness for strangers, like a famous footballer or an old queen they never met, and that is a different kind of sadness from losing family; rumours at the school gate spread fast and are often wrong, so we wait for what grown-ups actually say. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (People, that, different kind, rumours), 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:3 # text = People can feel real sadness for strangers, like a famous footballer or an old queen they never met, and that is a different kind of sadness from losing family; rumours at the school gate spread fast and are often wrong, so we wait for what grown-ups actually say. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 People people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 sadness sadness NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 strangers stranger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 like like ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 famous famous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 footballer footballer NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 13 or or CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 queen queen NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 17 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 19 met meet VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 22 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 26 nsubj _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 sadness sadness NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 29 from from SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 30 losing lose VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 26 acl _ _ 31 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 32 ; ; PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 rumours rumour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nsubj _ _ 34 at at ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 gate gate NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ _ 38 spread spread VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 39 fast fast ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 41 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 cop _ _ 42 often often ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 43 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 conj _ _ 44 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 45 so so ADV RB _ 47 advmod _ _ 46 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 47 nsubj _ _ 47 wait wait VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 48 for for ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 49 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 47 obl _ _ 50 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 52 amod _ _ 51 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 50 punct _ _ 52 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 54 nsubj _ _ 53 actually actually ADV RB _ 54 advmod _ _ 54 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 49 acl:relcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=49:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 55 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **feel** | can | People | real sadness | | | | for strangers | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent sadness=Location for stranger=Theme | | 2 | **not** **meet** | past | people | a old queen *not said here* | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Co-Agent | | 3 | **is a** | present | that | a different kind | | | | of sadness | tree rules | | 4 | **lose** | gerund | a different kind *not said here* | family | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=Eventuality | | 5 | **spread** | present | rumours at the school gate | | | | | fast *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **is** | present | rumours at the school gate *not said here* | | | | | often, wrong *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **wait** | present | we | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | grown ups | | | | | actually *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | 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. **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:060-accidents-wars-and-deaths-on-the-news.lesson:3`. **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): R8-pos-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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