--- title: It is kinder to let a grieving person choose what to share than to a… — When a friend's mum or dad dies: what to say and… · tree and pragmatics description: It is kinder to let a grieving person choose what to share than to ask for details. Who acts: grieving person. A sentence of the lesson «When a friend's mum or dad dies: what to say and do» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/61-when-a-friends-mum-or-dad-dies-what-to-say-and-do/10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/) / [When a friend's mum or dad dies: what…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/61-when-a-friends-mum-or-dad-dies-what-to-say-and-do/) / 10 # When a friend's mum or dad dies: what to say and do, sentence 10 It is kinder to let a grieving person choose what to share than to ask for details. **Who acts:** grieving person · **What happens:** be, let, grieve, choose, share, ask · **To what, where:** grieving person This is a sentence of the lesson «When a friend's mum or dad dies: what to say and do» 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 (grieving person), 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:10 # text = It is kinder to let a grieving person choose what to share than to ask for details. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 expl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 kinder kind ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:advcl 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 grieving grieve VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 amod _ _ 8 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 choose choose VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 10 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 12 obj _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 share share VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ _ 13 than than SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 16 for for ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 details detail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 18 . . 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 | **is** | present | | | | | | kind *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **let** | to-infinitive | | a grieving person | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **grieve** | gerund | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **choose** | infinitive | a grieving person *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **share** | to-infinitive | a grieving person *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive | | | | | | for details | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: 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:061-when-a-friends-mum-or-dad-dies-what-to-say-and-do.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 ×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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