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title: Grief can make people snappy; saying sorry helps, and so does tellin… — Grief: anger, guilt and laughing at the wrong mo… · tree and pragmatics
description: Grief can make people snappy; saying sorry helps, and so does telling someone you are sad. Who acts: Grief, you. A sentence of the lesson «Grief: anger, guilt and laughing at the wrong moment» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Grief: anger, guilt and laughing at the wrong moment, sentence 14

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Grief can make people snappy; saying sorry helps, and so does telling someone you are sad.

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**Who acts:** Grief, you · **What happens:** make, say, help, tell, be · **To what, where:** people, sorry, 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, 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:14
# text = Grief can make people snappy; saying sorry helps, and so does telling someone you are sad.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1
1	Grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	snappy	snappy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	nsubj	_	_
8	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obj	_	_
9	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=9:cc
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
15	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	14	obj	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	ccomp	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **make** | can | Grief | people |  |  |  | snappy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset people=Product |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund |  | sorry |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sorry=Topic |
| 3 | **help** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · do-support |  |  | someone |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent someone=Recipient |
| 5 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | sad *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:067-grief-anger-guilt-and-laughing-at-the-wrong-moment.lesson:14`.

**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. **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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