--- title: Grieving children often swing between sadness and being normal; laug… — When a friend's mum or dad dies: what to say and… · tree and pragmatics description: Grieving children often swing between sadness and being normal; laughing and playing is a rest from sadness, not a sign they don't care. Who acts: Grieving children, laughing, children. 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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 children, laughing, children), 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:8 # text = Grieving children often swing between sadness and being normal; laughing and playing is a rest from sadness, not a sign they don't care. # 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): R1-cc-next ×2 1 Grieving grieve VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 amod _ _ 2 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 often often ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 swing swing VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 between between ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 sadness sadness NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=6:cc 8 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 cop _ _ 9 normal normal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 laughing laugh VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 csubj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=11:cc 13 playing play VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 conj _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 rest rest NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ _ 17 from from ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 sadness sadness NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 22 advmod _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 sign sign NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 parataxis _ _ 23 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 24 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 25 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 26 care care VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 acl:relcl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | 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 | **swing** | present | Grieving children | | | sadness | | often *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme between sadness=Trajectory | | 3 | **is** | gerund | Grieving children *not said here* | | | | | normal *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **laugh** | gerund | | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **play** | gerund | | | | | | | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is a** | present | laughing | a rest | | sadness | | | tree rules | | 7 | **not** **care** | present · do-support | children *= child* | a sign *not said here* | | | | | 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:8`. **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): R1-cc-next ×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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