--- title: Avoiding a grieving friend can make them feel lonely; «I didn't know… — When a friend's mum or dad dies: what to say and… · tree and pragmatics description: Avoiding a grieving friend can make them feel lonely; «I didn't know what to say, but I'm here» is enough. Who acts: Avoiding, respect, sorry, I. 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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 (Avoiding, respect, sorry, I), 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:13 # text = Avoiding a grieving friend can make them feel lonely; «I didn't know what to say, but I'm here» is enough. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1 1 Avoiding avoid VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 csubj _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 grieving grieve VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 amod _ _ 4 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ _ 8 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 9 lonely lonely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 xcomp _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=6:punct 11 « « PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ _ 12 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 13 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 15 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 csubj _ _ 16 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 18 obj _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 ccomp _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 20 but but CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 21 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 22 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 23 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 26 advmod _ _ 24 » » PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 26 enough enough ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **avoid** | gerund | | a grieving friend | | | | | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent friend=Location | | 2 | **grieve** | gerund | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **make** | can | Avoiding | respect | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **feel** | infinitive | respect *not said here* | | | | | lonely *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **not** **know** *in a quote* | past · do-support | sorry | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | | 7 | **is** | present | I | | | here | | enough *property* | 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:13`. **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): R2-punct-next ×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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