--- title: A recording of a loved one's voice can bring comfort and tears; it i… — Missing someone: memory boxes, birthdays and spe… · tree and pragmatics description: A recording of a loved one's voice can bring comfort and tears; it is okay to listen or not. Who acts: recording. 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 and the pragmatics of --- [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/16/) [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/) / 16 # Missing someone: memory boxes, birthdays and special days, sentence 16 A recording of a loved one's voice can bring comfort and tears; it is okay to listen or not. **Who acts:** recording · **What happens:** love, bring, be, listen · **To what, where:** comfort 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 (recording), 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:16 # text = A recording of a loved one's voice can bring comfort and tears; it is okay to listen or not. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×3 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 recording recording NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 loved love VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 amod _ _ 6 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ _ 7 's 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 9 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 11 comfort comfort NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 tears tear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 expl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:nsubj 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 17 okay okay ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 listen listen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:xcomp 20 or or CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 conj _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 10 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 | **love** | participle | | | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **bring** | can | a recording of a loved one's voice | comfort and tears | | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent comfort=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | | | | | | okay *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **listen** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | 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:16`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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