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title: Grief often returns on birthdays, anniversaries and holidays; this i… — Life and death: putting it all together · tree and pragmatics
description: Grief often returns on birthdays, anniversaries and holidays; this is normal. Who acts: Grief, this. A sentence of the lesson «Life and death: putting it all together» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Life and death: putting it all together, sentence 10

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Grief often returns on birthdays, anniversaries and holidays; this is normal.

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**Who acts:** Grief, this · **What happens:** return, be · **To what, where:** birthdays

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Life and death: putting it all together» 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 (Grief, this), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:080-life-and-death-putting-it-all-together.lesson:10
# text = Grief often returns on birthdays, anniversaries and holidays; this is normal.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 080-life-and-death-putting-it-all-together.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): R3-conj-first ×1
1	Grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	often	often	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	returns	return	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	birthdays	birthday	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	anniversaries	anniversary	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	holidays	holiday	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=7:conj
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	normal	normal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **return** | present | Grief |  |  | birthdays and anniversaries and holidays |  | often *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | this |  |  |  |  | normal *property* | 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:080-life-and-death-putting-it-all-together.lesson:10`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×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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