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title: People who miss someone often dream about them or feel close to them… — Souls, ghosts and stories · tree and pragmatics
description: People who miss someone often dream about them or feel close to them; this is a normal part of grief. Who acts: People, this. A sentence of the lesson «Souls, ghosts and stories» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Souls, ghosts and stories, sentence 12

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People who miss someone often dream about them or feel close to them; this is a normal part of grief.

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**Who acts:** People, this · **What happens:** miss, dream, feel, be · **To what, where:** someone, normal part

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Souls, ghosts and stories» 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, this), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:074-souls-ghosts-and-stories.lesson:12
# text = People who miss someone often dream about them or feel close to them; this is a normal part of grief.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 074-souls-ghosts-and-stories.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	miss	miss	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
4	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	obj	_	_
5	often	often	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	dream	dream	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	about	about	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
11	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=6:punct
15	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	normal	normal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **miss** | present | People | someone |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer someone=Stimulus |
| 2 | **dream** | present | People |  |  |  |  | about Christians *= christian*; often *property* | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about they=Topic |
| 3 | **feel** | present | People *not said here* |  |  |  |  | close *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is a** | present | this | a normal part |  |  |  | of grief | tree rules |

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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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**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:074-souls-ghosts-and-stories.lesson:12`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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