--- title: Picture Grace on the day Lily comes back to school after her mum die… — When a friend's mum or dad dies: what to say and… · tree and pragmatics description: Picture Grace on the day Lily comes back to school after her mum died: Grace does not make a speech, she says «I'm sorry, I'm here if you want to talk», sits next to Lily at lunch, and then just carries on being a normal friend. Who acts: Picture Grace, mum, Grace, you. 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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 (Picture Grace, mum, Grace, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:061-when-a-friends-mum-or-dad-dies-what-to-say-and-do.lesson:1 # text = Picture Grace on the day Lily comes back to school after her mum died: Grace does not make a speech, she says «I'm sorry, I'm here if you want to talk», sits next to Lily at lunch, and then just carries on being a normal friend. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 061-when-a-friends-mum-or-dad-dies-what-to-say-and-do.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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Picture picture NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 Grace grace NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:det 5 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 Lily Lily PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 7 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 back back ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 after after SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 12 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 15 : : PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 16 Grace Grace PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 17 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 19 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 parataxis _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 speech speech NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 parataxis _ _ 25 « « PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ _ 26 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 28 sorry sorry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 ccomp _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct 30 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 31 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 32 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 28 ccomp _ _ 33 if if SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 34 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 advcl _ _ 36 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 37 talk talk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 xcomp _ _ 38 » » PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ _ 39 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 40 sits sit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 41 next next ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=43:advmod 42 to to ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 Lily Lily PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=40:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 44 at at ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 lunch lunch NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=43:nmod 46 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 47 and and CCONJ CC _ 50 cc _ _ 48 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 50 advmod _ _ 49 just just ADV RB _ 50 advmod _ _ 50 carries carry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 conj _ _ 51 on on ADP IN _ 55 case _ _ 52 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 55 cop _ _ 53 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 55 det _ _ 54 normal normal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 55 amod _ _ 55 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=50:obl 56 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: other - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: changed act=other | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come back** | present | Picture Grace | | | school | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to school=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **die** | past | Lily's mum | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 3 | **not** **make** | present · do-support | Grace | a speech | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent speech=Product | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Grace | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Grace | | | | | sorry *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Grace | | | | | here *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **want** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | you | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 8 | **talk** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **sit** | present | Grace *not said here* | | Lily | lunch | | next *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at lunch=Location | | 10 | **carry** | present | Grace *not said here* | | | | then | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 11 | **is** | gerund | Grace *not said here* | | | | | on a normal friend | tree rules | 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:061-when-a-friends-mum-or-dad-dies-what-to-say-and-do.lesson:1`. **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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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