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title: Grief is not only sadness: after his dad's funeral Ben slams doors a… — Grief: anger, guilt and laughing at the wrong mo… · tree and pragmatics
description: Grief is not only sadness: after his dad's funeral Ben slams doors and shouts «It's not FAIR!», and that anger is part of grief too, because losing someone you love really does feel unfair. Who acts: Grief, Ben, anger, you. A sentence of the lesson «Grief: anger, guilt and laughing at the wrong mome
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# Grief: anger, guilt and laughing at the wrong moment, sentence 0

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Grief is not only sadness: after his dad's funeral Ben slams doors and shouts «It's not FAIR!», and that anger is part of grief too, because losing someone you love really does feel unfair.

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**Who acts:** Grief, Ben, anger, you · **What happens:** not be, slam, shout, be, lose, love · **To what, where:** sadness, doors, part, someone · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Grief: anger, guilt and laughing at the wrong moment» 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, Ben, anger, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:067-grief-anger-guilt-and-laughing-at-the-wrong-moment.lesson:0
# text = Grief is not only sadness: after his dad's funeral Ben slams doors and shouts «It's not FAIR!», and that anger is part of grief too, because losing someone you love really does feel unfair.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 067-grief-anger-guilt-and-laughing-at-the-wrong-moment.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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
5	sadness	sadness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
7	after	after	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	funeral	funeral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
12	Ben	Ben	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	slams	slam	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
14	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:nmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	shouts	shout	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
17	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
18	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	FAIR	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
22	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct
23	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
26	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	det	_	_
27	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
29	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
32	too	too	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
35	losing	lose	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
36	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	35	obj	_	_
37	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	love	love	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	acl:relcl	_	_
39	really	really	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
40	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
41	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	acl:relcl	_	_
42	unfair	unfair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	xcomp	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** | present | Grief | sadness and part |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **slam** | present | Ben | doors |  |  | after his dad's funeral |  | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient |
| 3 | **shout** *speech: express* | present | Ben *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | Grief |  |  |  |  | fair *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** | present | that anger | part |  |  |  | of grief | tree rules |
| 6 | **lose** | gerund | Grief *not said here* | someone |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Eventuality |
| 7 | **love** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer |
| 8 | **feel** | present · do-support |  |  |  |  |  | unfair *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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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**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:067-grief-anger-guilt-and-laughing-at-the-wrong-moment.lesson:0`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×2, 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.

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

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