--- title: Nervous giggles at a funeral, like Max and his cousin during the pra… — Grief: anger, guilt and laughing at the wrong mo… · tree and pragmatics description: Nervous giggles at a funeral, like Max and his cousin during the prayers, happen to lots of people: the body lets off tension in a strange way, and it does not mean they did not care. Who acts: Nervous giggles, body, it, giggles. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nervous giggles, body, it, giggles), 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:3 # text = Nervous giggles at a funeral, like Max and his cousin during the prayers, happen to lots of people: the body lets off tension in a strange way, and it does not mean they did not care. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Nervous nervous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 giggles giggle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 3 at at ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 funeral funeral NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 like like ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 Max Max PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:appos 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 cousin cousin NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 12 during during ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 prayers prayer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:nmod 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 happen happen VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 lots lot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nmod _ _ 21 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 lets let VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 parataxis _ _ 25 off off ADP RP _ 24 compound:prt _ _ 26 tension tension NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 strange strange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 34 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 35 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 36 advmod _ _ 36 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 conj _ _ 37 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 38 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 39 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 40 advmod _ _ 40 care care VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 ccomp _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **happen** | present | Nervous giggles at a funeral like Max during the prayers and anger's cousin | | | | | to lots of people | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **let off** | present | the body | tension | | a strange way | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tension=Theme | | 3 | **not** **mean** | present · do-support | it | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **not** **care** | past · do-support | giggles *= giggle* | | | | | | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | 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. **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:3`. **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): R5-strong ×1, 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. 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