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title: Grief can also jump out of nowhere: six months after Grandma died, M… — Missing someone: memory boxes, birthdays and spe… · tree and pragmatics
description: Grief can also jump out of nowhere: six months after Grandma died, Mia smells Grandma's perfume on a lady in a shop and starts crying; this is called a grief trigger, and it is normal. Who acts: Grief, Grandma, Mia. A sentence of the lesson «Missing someone: memory boxes, birthdays and special days»
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# Missing someone: memory boxes, birthdays and special days, sentence 3

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Grief can also jump out of nowhere: six months after Grandma died, Mia smells Grandma's perfume on a lady in a shop and starts crying; this is called a grief trigger, and it is normal.

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**Who acts:** Grief, Grandma, Mia · **What happens:** jump out, die, smell, start, cry, call · **To what, where:** perfume, this · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, Grandma, Mia), 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:3
# text = Grief can also jump out of nowhere: six months after Grandma died, Mia smells Grandma's perfume on a lady in a shop and starts crying; this is called a grief trigger, and it is normal.
# 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): R5-strong ×4, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	jump	jump	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	nowhere	nowhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	obl	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
9	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:nsubj
11	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
12	Grandma	Grandma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:nmod
13	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	Mia	Mia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	smells	smell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
17	Grandma	Grandma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
18	's	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	perfume	perfume	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:nmod
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	starts	start	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
28	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	xcomp	_	_
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
30	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	trigger	trigger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
38	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
39	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	cop	_	_
40	normal	normal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	conj	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed polarity=pos

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **jump out** | can | Grief |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme nowhere=Trajectory |
| 2 | **die** | past | Grandma |  |  |  | month |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **smell** | present | Mia | Grandma's perfume |  |  |  | on a lady in a shop | vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent perfume=Theme on lady=Location |
| 4 | **start** | present | Mia *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | Mia *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **call** | present · passive |  | this |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 7 | **is** | present | Grief |  |  |  |  | normal *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **perfume** |  | Grandma |  |  |  |  |  | nom perfume «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:068-missing-someone-memory-boxes-birthdays-and-special-days.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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-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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