--- title: Sentences starting «at least» can make a grieving person feel their… — When a friend's mum or dad dies: what to say and… · tree and pragmatics description: Sentences starting «at least» can make a grieving person feel their loss doesn't count, even when they are meant kindly. Who acts: Sentences, grieving person, loss. 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 w --- [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/6/) [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/) / 6 # When a friend's mum or dad dies: what to say and do, sentence 6 Sentences starting «at least» can make a grieving person feel their loss doesn't count, even when they are meant kindly. **Who acts:** Sentences, grieving person, loss · **What happens:** start, make, grieve, feel, not count, mean · **To what, where:** least, grieving person, Sentences 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 (Sentences, grieving person, loss), 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:6 # text = Sentences starting «at least» can make a grieving person feel their loss doesn't count, even when they are meant kindly. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Sentences sentence NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:root 2 starting start VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 1 acl _ _ 3 « « PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 4 at at ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 least least ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 2 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:obj 6 » » PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct 7 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 grieving grieve VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 amod _ _ 11 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 12 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 xcomp _ _ 13 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 loss loss NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 15 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 17 count count VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 ccomp _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 even even ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 20 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 23 advmod _ _ 21 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux:pass _ _ 23 meant mean VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 advcl _ _ 24 kindly kindly ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 8 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 | **start** | gerund | Sentences *not said here* | | | least | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 2 | **make** | can | Sentences | a grieving person | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **grieve** | gerund | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **feel** | infinitive | a grieving person *not said here* | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **not** **count** | present · do-support | Sentences's loss | | | | | | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | | 6 | **mean** | present · passive | | Sentences *= sentence* | | | | kindly *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | 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:6`. **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, 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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