Moving, new schools, change and grief, sentence 22

Crying and talking about a loss are normal and help people heal.

Who acts: Crying, people · What happens: cry, talk, be, help, heal · To what, where: people

This is a sentence of the lesson «Moving, new schools, change and grief» of the everyday 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 (Crying, people), 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	Crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 normal	csubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 talking	cc
3	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Crying	conj
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 loss	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 loss	det
6	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 talking	obl
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 normal	cop
8	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 help	cc
10	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 normal	conj
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 help	obj
12	heal	heal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 help	xcomp
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 normal	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	gerund				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	talk	gerund			about a loss	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about loss=Topic
3	is	present	Crying		normal property	tree rules
4	help	present	Crying not said here	people		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent people=Beneficiary clause=Theme
5	heal	infinitive	people not said here			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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, 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:everyday:097-moving-change-and-grief.lesson:22.

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.

See the release 0.4.

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