--- title: Getting help is part of healing: Ben's mum talks to a grief counsell… — When grown-ups grieve, and how it gets softer · tree and pragmatics description: Getting help is part of healing: Ben's mum talks to a grief counsellor, Holly's aunt finds comfort in her church, Charlie's grandad joins a lunch club, and Lily's dad slowly starts laughing again, which is healing, not forgetting. Who acts: Getting, mum, aunt, grandad. 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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 (Getting, mum, aunt, grandad), 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:3 # text = Getting help is part of healing: Ben's mum talks to a grief counsellor, Holly's aunt finds comfort in her church, Charlie's grandad joins a lunch club, and Lily's dad slowly starts laughing again, which is healing, not forgetting. # 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Getting get VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 csubj _ _ 2 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 healing healing NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 8 Ben Ben PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nmod:poss _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:nmod:poss 9 's 's PART POS _ 8 case _ _ 10 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 talks talk VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 grief grief NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 counsellor counsellor NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct 17 Holly Holly PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nmod:poss _ _ 18 's 's PART POS _ 17 case _ _ 19 aunt aunt NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 finds find VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 21 comfort comfort NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 church church NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 Charlie Charlie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nmod:poss _ _ 27 's 's PART POS _ 26 case _ _ 28 grandad grandad NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 joins join VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 lunch lunch NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 club club NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 35 Lily Lily PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=37:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 36 's 's PART POS _ 35 case _ _ 37 dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 38 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 39 starts start VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 40 laughing laugh VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 39 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=39:ccomp 41 again again ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 42 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 43 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 45 nsubj _ _ 44 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 45 aux _ _ 45 healing heal VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 40 conj _ _ 46 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 47 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 48 advmod _ _ 48 forgetting forget VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 45 conj _ _ 49 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | gerund | | help | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer help=Stimulus | | 2 | **is a** | present | Getting | part | | | | of healing | tree rules | | 3 | **talk** | present | Ben's mum | | | | | to a grief counsellor | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to counsellor=Co-Agent | | 4 | **find** | present | Holly's aunt | comfort | | mum's church | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent comfort=Topic | | 5 | **join** | present | Charlie's grandad | a lunch club | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent club=Patient | | 6 | **start** | present | Lily's dad | | | | | slowly *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 7 | **laugh** | gerund | Lily's dad *not said here* | | | | again | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **heal** | present · progressive | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 9 | **not** **forget** | gerund | | | | | | | 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:3`. **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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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