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title: It does not look the same in everyone: Ellie cries every night for a… — Grief: crying, not crying and feeling numb · tree and pragmatics
description: It does not look the same in everyone: Ellie cries every night for a week after Grandad's funeral, her cousin Tom does not cry at all when his nan dies, and both of them loved their grandparents. Who acts: Grief, Ellie, cousin, nan. A sentence of the lesson «Grief: crying, not crying and feeling num
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# Grief: crying, not crying and feeling numb, sentence 1

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It does not look the same in everyone: Ellie cries every night for a week after Grandad's funeral, her cousin Tom does not cry at all when his nan dies, and both of them loved their grandparents.

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**Who acts:** Grief, Ellie, cousin, nan, both · **What happens:** not look, cry, not cry, die, love · **To what, where:** all, grandparents

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Grief: crying, not crying and feeling numb» 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 (Grief, Ellie, cousin, nan), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:066-grief-crying-not-crying-and-feeling-numb.lesson:1
# text = It does not look the same in everyone: Ellie cries every night for a week after Grandad's funeral, her cousin Tom does not cry at all when his nan dies, and both of them loved their grandparents.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 066-grief-crying-not-crying-and-feeling-numb.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 ×2
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obj
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	4	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obl
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	Ellie	Ellie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	cries	cry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:advcl
12	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	after	after	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	's	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	funeral	funeral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
24	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
25	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	cry	cry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
28	at	at	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	obl	_	_
30	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	33	advmod	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	nan	nan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	dies	die	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
36	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	39	nsubj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nmod	_	_
39	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
40	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	grandparents	grandparent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obj	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **not** **look** | present · do-support | Grief |  |  |  |  | in everyone; same *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in everyone=Theme |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | present | Ellie |  |  |  | after Grandad's funeral; night; week |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **cry** *speech: express* | present · do-support | Ellie's cousin |  |  | all |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Location |
| 4 | **die** | present | cousin's nan |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 5 | **love** | past | both | their grandparents |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer grandparent=Stimulus |

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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): R5-strong ×1, 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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