--- title: Grief usually gets softer with time: Oscar's grandad says that a yea… — When grown-ups grieve, and how it gets softer · tree and pragmatics description: Grief usually gets softer with time: Oscar's grandad says that a year after his wife died the pain is «like a bruise that's healing», still there when touched, but no longer sharp all the time. Who acts: Grief, grandad, wife, pain. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Grief, grandad, wife, pain), 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:2 # text = Grief usually gets softer with time: Oscar's grandad says that a year after his wife died the pain is «like a bruise that's healing», still there when touched, but no longer sharp all the time. # 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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Grief grief NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 usually usually ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 softer soft ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 3 xcomp _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 8 Oscar Oscar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nmod:poss _ _ 9 's 's PART POS _ 8 case _ _ 10 grandad grandad NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 12 that that SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:nsubj 15 after after SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 16 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:nmod 18 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 ccomp _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 pain pain NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 22 « « PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 23 like like ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 bruise bruise NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 26 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 27 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 healing heal VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 ccomp _ _ 29 » » PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 still still ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 34 advmod _ _ 33 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 34 advmod _ _ 34 touched touch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 28 conj _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 36 but but CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 37 no no ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 38 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 39 advmod _ _ 39 sharp sharp ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 40 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 42 det:predet _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=34:obl:unmarked 43 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | present | Grief | | | | | soft, usually *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Oscar's grandad | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **die** | past | Grandad's wife | | | | year | | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present · progressive | the pain | | | | | like a bruise; heal *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **touch** | participle | the pain *not said here* | | | there | | sharp *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:2`. **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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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