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title: Having fun, like going to a mate's birthday party, does not mean you… — Grief: crying, not crying and feeling numb · tree and pragmatics
description: Having fun, like going to a mate's birthday party, does not mean you have stopped caring. Who acts: Having, you. A sentence of the lesson «Grief: crying, not crying and feeling numb» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grief: crying, not crying and feeling numb, sentence 14

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Having fun, like going to a mate's birthday party, does not mean you have stopped caring.

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**Who acts:** Having, you · **What happens:** have, go, not mean, stop, care · **To what, where:** fun, birthday party · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Having, you), 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:14
# text = Having fun, like going to a mate's birthday party, does not mean you have stopped caring.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:advcl
2	fun	fun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	_
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	birthday	birthday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
13	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	mean	mean	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	stopped	stop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	ccomp	_	_
19	caring	care	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	xcomp	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	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 | **have** | gerund |  | fun |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fun=Patient |
| 2 | **go** | gerund |  |  |  | a mate's birthday party |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to party=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **not** **mean** | present · do-support | Having |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **stop** | present · perfect | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **care** | gerund | you *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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**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): 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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