When someone dies: guilt, numbness and waves of grief, sentence 6

What helped Jamie was telling Mum the Sunday thought out loud, and she told him Grandad watched his match videos on her phone and was proud; what did not help was pretending at school that he was fine.

Who acts: Sunday, Mum, Grandad · What happens: help, be, think out, tell, watch, not help · To what, where: Jamie, Mum, match videos, phone, school · 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 (Sunday, Mum, Grandad), 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 helped	nsubj
2	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 telling	csubj
3	Jamie	Jamie	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 helped	obj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 telling	cop
5	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	Mum	Mum	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 telling	iobj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Sunday	det
8	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 thought	nsubj
9	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 telling	ccomp
10	out	out	ADV	_	11 loud	advmod
11	loud	loud	ADV	_	9 thought	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 told	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 told	cc
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 told	nsubj
15	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 telling	conj
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 told	iobj
17	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 watched	nsubj
18	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 told	ccomp
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 videos	nmod:poss
20	match	match	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 videos	compound
21	videos	video	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 watched	obj
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 phone	case
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 phone	nmod:poss
24	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 watched	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 proud	cc
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 proud	cop
27	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 watched	conj
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 pretending	punct
29	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	32 help	nsubj
30	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 help	aux
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 help	advmod
32	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 pretending	csubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 pretending	aux
34	pretending	pretend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 telling	conj
35	at	at	ADP	_	36 school	case
36	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 pretending	obl
37	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 fine	mark
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 fine	nsubj
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 fine	cop
40	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 pretending	ccomp
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 telling	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	help	past			Jamie			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jamie=Beneficiary
2	be speech: assert	past			Mum		tell property	tree rules
3	think out speech: other	past	the Sunday				loud property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	tell speech: assert	past	Mum		Jamie			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
5	watch	past	Grandad	Grandad's match videos		Mum's phone		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent video=Theme
6	is	past	Grandad not said here				proud property	tree rules
7	not help	past · do-support						vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
8	pretend	past · progressive				school		tree rules
9	is	past	Grandad				fine property	tree rules

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: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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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.

See the release 0.4.

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