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title: Grown-ups grieve too: a month after Grandad died, Ellie hears her mu… — When grown-ups grieve, and how it gets softer · tree and pragmatics
description: Grown-ups grieve too: a month after Grandad died, Ellie hears her mum crying in the bathroom, because Grandad was Mum's own dad, and nobody is ever too old to miss their mum or dad. Who acts: Grown ups, Grandad, Ellie, mum. A sentence of the lesson «When grown-ups grieve, and how it gets softer» of 
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# When grown-ups grieve, and how it gets softer, sentence 0

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Grown-ups grieve too: a month after Grandad died, Ellie hears her mum crying in the bathroom, because Grandad was Mum's own dad, and nobody is ever too old to miss their mum or dad.

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**Who acts:** Grown ups, Grandad, Ellie, mum, nobody · **What happens:** grieve, die, hear, cry, be, miss · **To what, where:** mum, bathroom, own dad

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This is a sentence of the lesson «When grown-ups grieve, and how it gets softer» 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 (Grown ups, Grandad, Ellie, mum), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:069-when-grown-ups-grieve-and-how-it-gets-softer.lesson:0
# text = Grown-ups grieve too: a month after Grandad died, Ellie hears her mum crying in the bathroom, because Grandad was Mum's own dad, and nobody is ever too old to miss their mum or dad.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 069-when-grown-ups-grieve-and-how-it-gets-softer.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Grown	grow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	_
3	ups	up	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	grieve	grieve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	Ellie	Ellie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	hears	hear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	acl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	bathroom	bathroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
22	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
23	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
25	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod:poss	_	_
26	's	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	advcl	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
31	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	35	nsubj	_	_
32	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
33	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	35	advmod	_	_
34	too	too	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	miss	miss	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	xcomp	_	_
38	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
40	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	conj	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grieve** | infinitive | Grown ups |  |  |  | month |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **die** | past | Grandad |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **hear** | present | Ellie | Ellie's mum |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer mum=Stimulus |
| 4 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | Ellie's mum *not said here* |  |  | the bathroom |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bathroom=Location |
| 5 | **is a** | past | Grandad | Mum's own dad |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** | present | nobody |  |  |  | ever | old *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **miss** | to-infinitive | nobody *not said here* | ups's mum or dad |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mum=Stimulus |

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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): 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.

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