--- title: There are no perfect words; «I'm so sorry about your mum» and «I'm h… — When a friend's mum or dad dies: what to say and… · tree and pragmatics description: There are no perfect words; «I'm so sorry about your mum» and «I'm here if you want to talk» are good, simple things to say. Who acts: sorry, neighbours, 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 (sorry, neighbours, 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:5 # text = There are no perfect words; «I'm so sorry about your mum» and «I'm here if you want to talk» are good, simple things to say. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 2 expl _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 parataxis _ _ 3 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 5 det _ _ 4 perfect perfect ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 6 ; ; PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 7 « « PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 8 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 9 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 10 so so ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 sorry sorry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 nsubj _ _ 12 about about ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 » » PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 17 « « PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 18 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 20 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 11 conj _ _ 21 if if SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 22 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 advcl _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 talk talk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ _ 26 » » PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct 27 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 28 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 simple simple ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 conj _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 acl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: evaluate - voice: character - polarity: pos - teacher: changed polarity=pos | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | sorry | | | | | about your mum; sorry *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | neighbours *= neighbour* | | | | | here *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **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 | | 4 | **talk** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** | present | sorry | | | | | good *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | sorry *not said here* | | | | | | 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:061-when-a-friends-mum-or-dad-dies-what-to-say-and-do.lesson:5`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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