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title: Special days like Mother's Day and Father's Day can be very hard for… — When a friend's mum or dad dies: what to say and… · tree and pragmatics
description: Special days like Mother's Day and Father's Day can be very hard for a child whose parent has died. Who acts: Special days, parent. 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 p
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# When a friend's mum or dad dies: what to say and do, sentence 9

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Special days like Mother's Day and Father's Day can be very hard for a child whose parent has died.

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**Who acts:** Special days, parent · **What happens:** be, die

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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 (Special days, parent), 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:9
# text = Special days like Mother's Day and Father's Day can be very hard for a child whose parent has died.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	Mother	Mother	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	Day	Day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	Father	Father	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	Day	Day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	cop	_	_
13	very	very	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	died	die	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	acl:relcl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | can | Special days like Mother's Day and Father |  |  |  |  | for a child; hard *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **die** | present · perfect | parent |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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**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): 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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