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title: There is no single right way to grieve, and no feeling in grief is «… — Grief: crying, not crying and feeling numb · tree and pragmatics
description: There is no single right way to grieve, and no feeling in grief is «wrong». Who acts: single right way, feeling. 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 17

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There is no single right way to grieve, and no feeling in grief is «wrong».

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**Who acts:** single right way, feeling · **What happens:** be, grieve

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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 (single right way, feeling), 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:17
# text = There is no single right way to grieve, and no feeling in grief is «wrong».
# 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): no change
1	There	there	PRON	EX	_	2	expl	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
4	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	grieve	grieve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
11	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	12	det	_	_
12	feeling	feeling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
17	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
18	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
19	.	.	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 | **be** | present | no single right way |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **grieve** | to-infinitive | no single right way *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | no feeling in grief |  |  |  |  | wrong *property* | tree rules |

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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:066-grief-crying-not-crying-and-feeling-numb.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): no change. **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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