Grief has no timetable: houses, anniversaries and big questions, sentence 11

People grieve in different ways; some need normal things like playing and laughing to cope, and laughing does not mean someone is not sad.

Who acts: People, some, normal things, laughing, someone · What happens: grieve, need, play, laugh, cope, not mean · To what, where: different ways, normal things · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Grief has no timetable: houses, anniversaries and big questions» 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 (People, some, normal things, laughing), 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	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grieve	nsubj
2	grieve	grieve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 ways	case
4	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ways	amod
5	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grieve	obl
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 grieve	punct
7	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 need	nsubj
8	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 grieve	parataxis
9	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 things	amod
10	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 need	obj
11	like	like	SCONJ	_	12 playing	mark
12	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 things	acl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 laughing	cc
14	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 playing	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 cope	mark
16	cope	cope	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 laughing	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 mean	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 mean	cc
19	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 mean	csubj
20	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 mean	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 mean	advmod
22	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 playing	conj
23	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	26 sad	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 sad	cop
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 sad	advmod
26	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 mean	ccomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 grieve	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	grieve	present	People		different ways		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	need	present	some	normal things			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot thing=Theme
3	play	gerund	normal things not said here				vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	laugh	gerund	normal things not said here				tree rules
5	cope	to-infinitive	normal things not said here				vn cope-83-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	laugh	gerund					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	not mean	present · do-support	laughing				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
8	not is	present	someone			sad 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:002-grief-has-no-timetable-houses-anniversaries-and-big-questions.lesson:11.

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): 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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