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title: People grieve differently; not crying does not mean not caring. — The church funeral · tree and pragmatics
description: People grieve differently; not crying does not mean not caring. Who acts: People, crying. A sentence of the lesson «The church funeral» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The church funeral, sentence 17

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People grieve differently; not crying does not mean not caring.

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**Who acts:** People, crying · **What happens:** grieve, not cry, not mean, not care · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The church funeral» 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 (People, crying), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:062-the-church-funeral.lesson:17
# text = People grieve differently; not crying does not mean not caring.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 062-the-church-funeral.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	grieve	grieve	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	differently	differently	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=2:punct
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:nsubj
7	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	caring	care	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:ccomp
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grieve** | present | People |  |  |  |  | differently *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **not** **cry** *speech: express* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **mean** | present · do-support | crying |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **not** **care** *not said to happen* | gerund | crying *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:062-the-church-funeral.lesson:17`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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