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title: A small gift like a card, a drawing or a favourite snack shows you c… — When a friend's mum or dad dies: what to say and… · tree and pragmatics
description: A small gift like a card, a drawing or a favourite snack shows you care; big presents are not needed. Who acts: small gift, you. 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 prag
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# When a friend's mum or dad dies: what to say and do, sentence 7

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A small gift like a card, a drawing or a favourite snack shows you care; big presents are not needed.

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**Who acts:** small gift, you · **What happens:** show, care, not need · **To what, where:** big presents · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (small gift, 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:7
# text = A small gift like a card, a drawing or a favourite snack shows you care; big presents are not needed.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	gift	gift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	card	card	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	drawing	drawing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:appos
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	favourite	favourite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	snack	snack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
14	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	care	care	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	ccomp	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	presents	present	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	needed	need	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present | a small gift like a card and a drawing or a favourite snack |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **care** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **not** **need** | present · passive |  | big presents |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme |

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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.

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**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:7`.

**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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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