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title: People can be angry at the doctors, at God, at a little sister, even… — Grief: anger, guilt and laughing at the wrong mo… · tree and pragmatics
description: People can be angry at the doctors, at God, at a little sister, even at the person who died; the feeling is allowed, but hurting people is not, so the anger needs a safe way out: running, drawing, punching a pillow, talking. Who acts: People, person, anger. A sentence of the lesson «Grief: anger, gu
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# Grief: anger, guilt and laughing at the wrong moment, sentence 1

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People can be angry at the doctors, at God, at a little sister, even at the person who died; the feeling is allowed, but hurting people is not, so the anger needs a safe way out: running, drawing, punching a pillow, talking.

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**Who acts:** People, person, anger · **What happens:** be, die, allow, hurt, need, run · **To what, where:** doctors, feeling, people, safe way, pillow

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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 (People, person, anger), 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:1
# text = People can be angry at the doctors, at God, at a little sister, even at the person who died; the feeling is allowed, but hurting people is not, so the anger needs a safe way out: running, drawing, punching a pillow, talking.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
4	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	doctors	doctor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	even	even	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	feeling	feeling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	allowed	allow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	hurting	hurt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	parataxis	_	_
31	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
32	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:cop
33	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	so	so	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
38	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
42	out	out	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
43	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	44	punct	_	_
44	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	38	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=38:conj
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
46	drawing	draw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	44	conj	_	_
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
48	punching	punch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	44	conj	_	_
49	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	pillow	pillow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obj	_	_
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
52	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	44	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=48:conj
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | can | People |  |  | the doctors at a little sister and the person and God |  | angry *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **die** | past | the person |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **allow** | present · passive |  | the feeling |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **hurt** | gerund |  | people |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Patient |
| 5 | **need** | present | the anger | a safe way |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot way=Theme |
| 6 | **run** | gerund | the anger *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **draw** | gerund | the anger *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **punch** | gerund | the anger *not said here* | a pillow |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pillow=Patient |
| 9 | **talk** | gerund | the anger *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:1`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, 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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