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title: Crying is a normal and healthy way to let sadness out; it usually ge… — Grief: crying, not crying and feeling numb · tree and pragmatics
description: Crying is a normal and healthy way to let sadness out; it usually gets less over time, though it can come back. Who acts: Crying, sadness. 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 pra
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# Grief: crying, not crying and feeling numb, sentence 7

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Crying is a normal and healthy way to let sadness out; it usually gets less over time, though it can come back.

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**Who acts:** Crying, sadness · **What happens:** cry, be, let out, get, come back · **To what, where:** normal way, sadness

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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 (Crying, sadness), 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:7
# text = Crying is a normal and healthy way to let sadness out; it usually gets less over time, though it can come back.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Crying	cry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	csubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	normal	normal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=4:cc
6	healthy	healthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl	_	_
10	sadness	sadness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
16	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	15	advmod	_	_
17	over	over	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
24	back	back	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Crying | a normal way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **let out** | to-infinitive |  | sadness |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sadness=Theme |
| 4 | **get** | present | sadness |  |  |  | time | less, usually *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **come back** | can | sadness |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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