--- title: A grieving friend may laugh and joke one day and cry in class the ne… — When a friend's mum or dad dies: what to say and… · tree and pragmatics description: A grieving friend may laugh and joke one day and cry in class the next, especially on days like Mother's Day; both are normal, so we do not judge, and we stand up for them if others do. Who acts: grieving friend, both, we. 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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 (grieving friend, both, we), 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:3 # text = A grieving friend may laugh and joke one day and cry in class the next, especially on days like Mother's Day; both are normal, so we do not judge, and we stand up for them if others do. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 grieving grieve VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 amod _ _ 3 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 laugh laugh VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 joke joke VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 8 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl:unmarked _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 cry cry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=7:conj 12 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 class class NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 obl:unmarked _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 especially especially ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 18 on on ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:obl 20 like like ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 Mother Mother PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 22 's 's PART POS _ 21 case _ _ 23 Day Day PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 27 nsubj _ _ 26 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 27 normal normal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 parataxis _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 29 so so ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 30 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 31 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 32 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 33 advmod _ _ 33 judge judge VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 parataxis _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 36 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 37 stand stand VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 conj _ _ 38 up up ADP RP _ 37 compound:prt _ _ 39 for for ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obl _ _ 41 if if SCONJ IN _ 43 mark _ _ 42 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 nsubj _ _ 43 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 advcl _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grieve** | gerund | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **laugh** | may | a grieving friend | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **joke** *speech: other* | infinitive | a grieving friend *not said here* | | | | day | | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **cry** *speech: express* | infinitive | a grieving friend *not said here* | the next | | class | day | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in class=Location | | 5 | **is** | present | both | | | | | normal *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **not** **judge** | present · do-support | we | | | | | | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **stand up** | present | we | | | | | for mum | vn assuming\_position-50 «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: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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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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