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title: Making new friends after a loss, for example at a lunch club, helps… — When grown-ups grieve, and how it gets softer · tree and pragmatics
description: Making new friends after a loss, for example at a lunch club, helps people feel less lonely; it does not replace the person who died. Who acts: Making, people, club, person. A sentence of the lesson «When grown-ups grieve, and how it gets softer» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary schoo
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# When grown-ups grieve, and how it gets softer, sentence 14

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Making new friends after a loss, for example at a lunch club, helps people feel less lonely; it does not replace the person who died.

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**Who acts:** Making, people, club, person · **What happens:** make, help, feel, not replace, die · **To what, where:** new friends, lunch club, people, person

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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 (Making, people, club, 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:14
# text = Making new friends after a loss, for example at a lunch club, helps people feel less lonely; it does not replace 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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:advcl
2	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	after	after	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	loss	loss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	lunch	lunch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	club	club	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
15	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
17	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:xcomp
18	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	19	advmod	_	_
19	lonely	lonely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	replace	replace	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:conj
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
28	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	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 | **make** | gerund |  | new friends |  | a lunch club | after a loss | for example | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent friend=Product for example=Asset |
| 2 | **help** | present | Making | people |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent people=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 3 | **feel** | infinitive | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | lonely *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **not** **replace** | present · do-support | club | the person |  |  |  |  | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme person=Co-Theme |
| 5 | **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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**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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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