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title: People may always miss someone they loved a little, but the pain usu… — Life and death: putting it all together · tree and pragmatics
description: People may always miss someone they loved a little, but the pain usually softens and happy memories grow. Who acts: People, pain, happy memories. 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
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# Life and death: putting it all together, sentence 14

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People may always miss someone they loved a little, but the pain usually softens and happy memories grow.

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**Who acts:** People, pain, happy memories · **What happens:** miss, love, soften, grow · **To what, where:** someone, little

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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 (People, pain, happy memories), 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:14
# text = People may always miss someone they loved a little, but the pain usually softens and happy memories grow.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	always	always	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	miss	miss	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	4	obj	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	softens	soften	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	memories	memory	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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** | may | People | someone |  |  |  | always *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer someone=Stimulus |
| 2 | **love** | past | people | a little |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **soften** | present | the pain |  |  |  |  | usually *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **grow** | present | happy memories |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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**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): 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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