When someone dies: guilt, numbness and waves of grief, sentence 15

How sad you feel about a loss depends on how much you cared, not on how big the animal was; laughing at someone's sadness makes them hide it.

Who acts: you, animal, laughing, people · What happens: feel, depend, care, not be, laugh, make · To what, where: much, sadness, people, animal

This is a sentence of the lesson «When someone dies: guilt, numbness and waves of grief» of the reflection 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 (you, animal, laughing, 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 sad	advmod
2	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 feel	xcomp
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 feel	nsubj
4	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 depends	csubj
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 loss	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 loss	det
7	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 feel	obl
8	depends	depend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	on	on	SCONJ	_	13 cared	mark
10	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	11 much	advmod
11	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 cared	obj
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 cared	nsubj
13	cared	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 depends	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 big	punct
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 big	advmod
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 big	case
17	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	18 big	advmod
18	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 cared	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 animal	det
20	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 big	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 big	cop
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 makes	punct
23	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 makes	csubj
24	at	at	ADP	_	27 sadness	case
25	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	27 sadness	nmod:poss
26	's	's	PART	_	25 someone	case
27	sadness	sadness	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 laughing	obl
28	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 depends	parataxis
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 makes	obj
30	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 makes	xcomp
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 hide	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 depends	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	feel	present	you			about a loss; sad property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	depend	present					vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	care	past	you	much			tree rules
4	not is	past	the animal			big property	tree rules
5	laugh	gerund			someone's sadness		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	make	present	laughing	people			tree rules
7	hide	infinitive	people not said here	animal			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:reflection:001-when-someone-dies-guilt-numbness-and-waves-of-grief.lesson:15.

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, 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.

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