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title: Laughing and being happy again does not mean forgetting or not lovin… — When grown-ups grieve, and how it gets softer · tree and pragmatics
description: Laughing and being happy again does not mean forgetting or not loving the person who died. Who acts: Laughing, person. A sentence of the lesson «When grown-ups grieve, and how it gets softer» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# When grown-ups grieve, and how it gets softer, sentence 13

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Laughing and being happy again does not mean forgetting or not loving the person who died.

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**Who acts:** Laughing, person · **What happens:** laugh, be, not mean, forget, not love, die · **To what, where:** person · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Laughing, person), 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:13
# text = Laughing and being happy again does not mean forgetting or not loving the person who died.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Laughing	laugh	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=1:cc
3	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	cop	_	_
4	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
5	again	again	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	mean	mean	VERB	VB	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	forgetting	forget	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:obj
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=9:cc
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	loving	love	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- 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 | **laugh** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | happy *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **mean** | present · do-support | Laughing |  |  |  | again |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **forget** *not said to happen* | gerund | Laughing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **love** | gerund | Laughing *not said here* | the person |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer person=Stimulus |
| 6 | **die** | past | the person |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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:069-when-grown-ups-grieve-and-how-it-gets-softer.lesson:13`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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