Big feelings in big people, sentence 6

Tears are not always sad either: Mum can cry at the end of a film because it moved her, and Grandma can cry because she misses Grandad.

Who acts: Tears, Mum, film, Grandma · What happens: not be, cry, move, miss · To what, where: end, Mum, Grandad

This is a sentence of the lesson «Big feelings in big people» of the adult life 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 (Tears, Mum, film, Grandma), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sad	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sad	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 sad	advmod
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 sad	advmod
5	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	either	either	ADV	_	5 sad	advmod
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 sad	punct
8	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cry	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 cry	aux
10	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 sad	parataxis
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 end	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 end	det
13	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cry	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 film	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 film	det
16	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 end	nmod
17	because	because	SCONJ	_	19 moved	mark
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 moved	nsubj
19	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 cry	advcl
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 moved	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 cry	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 cry	cc
23	Grandma	grandma	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 cry	nsubj
24	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 cry	aux
25	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 cry	conj
26	because	because	SCONJ	_	28 misses	mark
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 misses	nsubj
28	misses	miss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 cry	advcl
29	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 misses	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sad	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	Tears			always, either, sad property	tree rules
2	cry speech: express	can	Mum		at the end of a film		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at end=Location
3	move	past	film	Mum			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme she=Result
4	cry speech: express	can	Grandma				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	miss	present	Grandma	Grandad			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer grandad=Stimulus

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, 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:adult-life:036-big-feelings-in-big-people.lesson:6.

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): no change. 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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