--- title: People can miss someone their whole life, but after many years the m… — When grown-ups grieve, and how it gets softer · tree and pragmatics description: People can miss someone their whole life, but after many years the missing is usually gentler. Who acts: People, missing. 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 eve --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/69-when-grown-ups-grieve-and-how-it-gets-softer/15/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/) / [When grown-ups grieve, and how it gets…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/69-when-grown-ups-grieve-and-how-it-gets-softer/) / 15 # When grown-ups grieve, and how it gets softer, sentence 15 People can miss someone their whole life, but after many years the missing is usually gentler. **Who acts:** People, missing · **What happens:** miss, be · **To what, where:** someone 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 (People, missing), 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:15 # text = People can miss someone their whole life, but after many years the missing is usually gentler. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 People people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 miss miss VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 3 obj _ _ 5 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 6 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl:unmarked _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 9 but but CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 10 after after ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 missing missing NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 16 usually usually ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 gentler gentle ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 3 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:parataxis 18 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **miss** | can | People | someone | | | | people's whole life *obl:unmarked* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer someone=Stimulus | | 2 | **is** | present | the missing | | | | year | gentle, usually *property* | tree rules | 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. **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:15`. **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): R7-rel-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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