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title: For a child today this means: name the feeling, let it out safely, s… — Grief: anger, guilt and laughing at the wrong mo… · tree and pragmatics
description: For a child today this means: name the feeling, let it out safely, say sorry if it spilled onto someone, and remember that nothing you did caused the death. Who acts: this, feeling, you, nothing. A sentence of the lesson «Grief: anger, guilt and laughing at the wrong moment» of the religion ethics c
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# Grief: anger, guilt and laughing at the wrong moment, sentence 5

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For a child today this means: name the feeling, let it out safely, say sorry if it spilled onto someone, and remember that nothing you did caused the death.

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**Who acts:** this, feeling, you, nothing · **What happens:** mean, name, let out, say, spill, remember · **To what, where:** feeling, someone, death · **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 (this, feeling, you, nothing), 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:5
# text = For a child today this means: name the feeling, let it out safely, say sorry if it spilled onto someone, and remember that nothing you did caused the death.
# 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 ×2
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod:unmarked	_	_
5	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj	_	_
6	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
8	name	name	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:xcomp
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	feeling	feeling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
15	safely	safely	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
18	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:ccomp
19	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	spilled	spill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:advcl
22	onto	onto	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	21	obl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
27	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
28	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	31	nsubj	_	_
29	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
31	caused	cause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	ccomp	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **mean** | present | this |  |  |  |  | for a child  today | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **name** | infinitive |  | the feeling |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feeling=Theme |
| 3 | **let out** | infinitive |  | feeling |  |  |  | safely *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **say** *speech: apologize* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | sorry *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **spill** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | feeling |  |  | someone |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme onto someone=Location |
| 6 | **remember** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 7 | **do** | past | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **cause** | past | nothing | the death |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition death=Patient |

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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:5`.

**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 ×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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