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title: Holidays like Christmas can be very hard after a death, because they… — Missing someone: memory boxes, birthdays and spe… · tree and pragmatics
description: Holidays like Christmas can be very hard after a death, because they remind us who is missing. Who acts: Holidays. 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 o
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# Missing someone: memory boxes, birthdays and special days, sentence 8

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Holidays like Christmas can be very hard after a death, because they remind us who is missing.

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**Who acts:** Holidays · **What happens:** be, remind · **To what, where:** us · **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 (Holidays), 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:8
# text = Holidays like Christmas can be very hard after a death, because they remind us who is missing.
# 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 ×1
1	Holidays	holiday	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
2	like	like	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	cop	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	after	after	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
12	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	remind	remind	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
15	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	missing	missing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	ccomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:acl:relcl
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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** | can |  |  |  |  | after a death |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **remind** *speech: other* | present | Holidays *= holiday* |  | us |  |  |  | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent we=Recipient |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | missing *property* | tree rules |

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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:8`.

**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. **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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