The old dog, the vet and the hardest goodbye, sentence 12
People grieve in different ways: some cry, some go quiet, some keep busy; no tears does not mean no love.
Who acts: People, some, tears · What happens: grieve, keep, not mean · To what, where: different ways, love
This is a sentence of the lesson «The old dog, the vet and the hardest goodbye» 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 (People, some, tears), 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 | _ | 8 cry | punct |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 cry | det |
| 8 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ways | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 quiet | punct |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 go | nsubj |
| 11 | go | go | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 quiet | amod |
| 12 | quiet | quiet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cry | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 keep | punct |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 keep | nsubj |
| 15 | keep | keep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cry | conj |
| 16 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 keep | xcomp |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 mean | punct |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 tears | det |
| 19 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 mean | nsubj |
| 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 | 2 grieve | parataxis |
| 23 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 24 love | det |
| 24 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 mean | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 grieve | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grieve | present | People | different ways some cry and go quiet and keep | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | keep | some | busy property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not mean | present · do-support | no tears | no love | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=Topic |
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:056-the-old-dog-the-vet-and-the-hardest-goodbye.lesson:12.
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, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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