--- title: For most people the pain of grief gets softer over time; it does not… — When grown-ups grieve, and how it gets softer · tree and pragmatics description: For most people the pain of grief gets softer over time; it does not vanish completely, but there is more room for happy memories. Who acts: pain, more room. 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 depen --- [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/9/) [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/) / 9 # When grown-ups grieve, and how it gets softer, sentence 9 For most people the pain of grief gets softer over time; it does not vanish completely, but there is more room for happy memories. **Who acts:** pain, more room · **What happens:** get, not vanish, be, pain · **To what, where:** grief 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 (pain, more room), 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:9 # text = For most people the pain of grief gets softer over time; it does not vanish completely, but there is more room for happy memories. # 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): no change 1 For for ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 3 amod _ _ 3 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 pain pain NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 grief grief NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 softer soft ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 8 xcomp _ _ 10 over over ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 14 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 15 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 16 vanish vanish VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 parataxis _ _ 17 completely completely ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 but but CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 21 expl _ _ 21 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 22 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 23 amod _ _ 23 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 24 for for ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 memories memory NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nmod _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 8 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** | present | the pain of grief | | | | | for most people; soft *property* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for people=Beneficiary | | 2 | **not** **vanish** | present · do-support | pain | | | | | completely *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **be** | present | more room for happy memories | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **pain** | | | grief | | | | | nom pain «state transitive»: of=patient | 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. 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