Grief has no timetable: houses, anniversaries and big questions, sentence 4

Loss also brings big questions, like "Where is he now?" or "Will Mum and Dad die too?"; families believe different things, nobody can know for sure, and asking a trusted adult out loud usually makes the scary thought quieter than keeping it alone at night.

Who acts: Loss, Mum, families, nobody, trusted adult · What happens: bring, be, die, believe, know, ask · To what, where: big questions, different things, scary thought, question · 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 (Loss, Mum, families, nobody), 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	Loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 brings	nsubj
2	also	also	ADV	_	3 brings	advmod
3	brings	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 questions	amod
5	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 brings	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Where	punct
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 Where	case
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 Where	punct
9	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	3 brings	conj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 Where	cop
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 Where	nsubj
12	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 brings	advmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 brings	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 brings	punct
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 die	cc
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 die	punct
17	Will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 die	aux
18	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 die	nsubj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 Dad	cc
20	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 Mum	conj
21	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 brings	conj
22	too	too	ADV	_	21 die	advmod
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 brings	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 brings	punct
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 believe	punct
26	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 believe	nsubj
27	believe	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 brings	parataxis
28	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 things	amod
29	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 believe	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 know	punct
31	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	33 know	nsubj
32	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 know	aux
33	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 believe	parataxis
34	for	for	ADP	_	35 sure	case
35	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 know	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 asking	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 asking	cc
38	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 brings	parataxis
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 adult	det
40	trusted	trust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	41 adult	amod
41	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 asking	obj
42	out	out	ADV	_	43 loud	advmod
43	loud	loud	ADV	_	38 asking	advmod
44	usually	usually	ADV	_	45 makes	advmod
45	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 asking	ccomp
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 thought	det
47	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 thought	amod
48	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 makes	obj
49	quieter	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	45 makes	xcomp
50	than	than	SCONJ	_	51 keeping	mark
51	keeping	keep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	49 quieter	advcl
52	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 keeping	obj
53	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 keeping	xcomp
54	at	at	ADP	_	55 night	case
55	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 keeping	obl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 brings	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	bring	present	Loss	big questions	now		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent question=Theme
2	is in a quote	present	Loss			where property	tree rules
3	die in a quote	future	Mum and Dad				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	believe	present	families	different things			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus
5	know	can	nobody			for sure	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	ask speech: ask	gerund	a trusted adult			loud property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	trust	participle					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
8	make	present		the scary thought		quiet, usually property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset thought=Product
9	keep	gerund		question	night	alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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:4.

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 ×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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