--- title: Missing someone is what love does when the person is no longer there… — Missing someone: memory boxes, birthdays and spe… · tree and pragmatics description: Missing someone is what love does when the person is no longer there, and families find ways to keep that love close. Who acts: love, person, families. A sentence of the lesson «Missing someone: memory boxes, birthdays and special days» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/68-missing-someone-memory-boxes-birthdays-and-special-days/0/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/) / [Missing someone: memory boxes, birthda…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/68-missing-someone-memory-boxes-birthdays-and-special-days/) / 0 # Missing someone: memory boxes, birthdays and special days, sentence 0 Missing someone is what love does when the person is no longer there, and families find ways to keep that love close. **Who acts:** love, person, families · **What happens:** missing, be, do, find, keep · **To what, where:** someone, ways, love This is a sentence of the lesson «Missing someone: memory boxes, birthdays and special days» 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 (love, person, families), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:068-missing-someone-memory-boxes-birthdays-and-special-days.lesson:0 # text = Missing someone is what love does when the person is no longer there, and families find ways to keep that love close. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 068-missing-someone-memory-boxes-birthdays-and-special-days.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): no change 1 Missing missing VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 nsubj _ _ 2 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 1 obj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 0 root _ _ 5 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 does do VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 7 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 13 advmod _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 11 no no ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 13 advmod _ _ 13 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 6 advcl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 find find VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 18 ways way NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 acl _ _ 21 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 22 det _ _ 22 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 close close ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 xcomp _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **missing** | gerund | | someone | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **do** | present | love | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | the person | | | | | long, there *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **find** | present | families | ways | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic | | 6 | **keep** | to-infinitive | families *not said here* | that love | | | | close *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=Theme | 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:068-missing-someone-memory-boxes-birthdays-and-special-days.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): no change. **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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