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title: A grief trigger is a smell, song, place or object that suddenly brin… — Missing someone: memory boxes, birthdays and spe… · tree and pragmatics
description: A grief trigger is a smell, song, place or object that suddenly brings back strong feelings of loss. Who acts: grief trigger, smell. 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 dependency tree an
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# Missing someone: memory boxes, birthdays and special days, sentence 10

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A grief trigger is a smell, song, place or object that suddenly brings back strong feelings of loss.

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**Who acts:** grief trigger, smell · **What happens:** be, bring back · **To what, where:** smell, strong feelings

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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 (grief trigger, smell), 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:10
# text = A grief trigger is a smell, song, place or object that suddenly brings back strong feelings of loss.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	trigger	trigger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	smell	smell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=10:conj
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
14	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	brings	bring	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:acl:relcl
16	back	back	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_
17	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	feelings	feeling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	loss	loss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a grief trigger | a smell and song and place or object |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bring back** | present | a smell and song and place or object | strong feelings of loss |  |  |  | suddenly *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent feeling=Theme |

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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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**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 ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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