When someone dies: guilt, numbness and waves of grief, sentence 20

Things that often help are saying the looping thought to a trusted adult, writing a letter to the person, keeping something of theirs and saying their name; pretending and avoiding usually make it heavier.

Who acts: Things, pretending, families · What happens: help, say, trust, write, keep, pretend · To what, where: looping thought, trusted adult, letter, person, something, name · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Things, pretending, families), 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	Things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 saying	nsubj
2	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 help	nsubj
3	often	often	ADV	_	4 help	advmod
4	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Things	acl:relcl
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 saying	aux
6	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 thought	det
8	looping	looping	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 thought	amod
9	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 saying	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	13 adult	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 adult	det
12	trusted	trust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 adult	amod
13	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 saying	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 writing	punct
15	writing	write	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 saying	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 letter	det
17	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 writing	obj
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 person	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 person	det
20	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 writing	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 keeping	punct
22	keeping	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 saying	conj
23	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	22 keeping	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 theirs	case
25	theirs	their	PRON	Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 something	nmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 saying	cc
27	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 keeping	conj
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 name	nmod:poss
29	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 saying	obj
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 saying	punct
31	pretending	pretend	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	35 make	csubj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 avoiding	cc
33	avoiding	avoid	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 pretending	conj
34	usually	usually	ADV	_	35 make	advmod
35	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 saying	parataxis
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 make	obj
37	heavier	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	35 make	xcomp
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 saying	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	help	present	Things			often property	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present · progressive	Things	the looping thought	a trusted adult		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent thought=Topic to adult=Recipient
3	trust	participle					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	write	gerund	Things not said here	a letter	the person		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent letter=Topic to person=Recipient
5	keep	gerund	Things not said here	something			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme
6	say speech: assert	gerund	Things not said here	families's name			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent name=Topic
7	pretend	gerund					tree rules
8	avoid	gerund					vn avoid-52 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
9	make	infinitive	pretending	name		heavy, usually property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product
10	name		families = family				nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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:20.

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): R5-strong ×2, R8-pos-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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