When a small pet dies: fish, hamsters and budgies, sentence 9

Grief for a pet is real grief, and nobody should tell you how sad to be.

Who acts: Grief, nobody · What happens: be, tell · To what, where: real grief, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «When a small pet dies: fish, hamsters and budgies» of the religion ethics 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 (Grief, 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	Grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grief	nsubj
2	for	for	ADP	_	4 pet	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 pet	det
4	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Grief	nmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 grief	cop
6	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 grief	amod
7	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 tell	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 tell	cc
10	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	12 tell	nsubj
11	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 tell	aux
12	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 grief	conj
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 tell	iobj
14	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	15 sad	advmod
15	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 tell	ccomp
16	to	to	PART	_	17 be	mark
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 sad	cop
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 grief	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Grief for a pet	real grief			tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	should	nobody		you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
3	is	infinitive				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:religion-ethics:055-when-a-small-pet-dies-fish-hamsters-and-budgies.lesson:9.

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 ×2. 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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