When a friend's mum or dad dies: what to say and do, sentence 3

A grieving friend may laugh and joke one day and cry in class the next, especially on days like Mother's Day; both are normal, so we do not judge, and we stand up for them if others do.

Who acts: grieving friend, both, we · What happens: grieve, laugh, joke, cry, be, not judge · To what, where: next, class

This is a sentence of the lesson «When a friend's mum or dad dies: what to say and do» 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 (grieving friend, both, we), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 friend	det
2	grieving	grieve	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 friend	amod
3	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 laugh	nsubj
4	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 laugh	aux
5	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 joke	cc
7	joke	joke	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 laugh	conj
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 day	nummod
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 joke	obl:unmarked
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 cry	cc
11	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 laugh	conj
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 class	case
13	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cry	obl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 next	det
15	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 cry	obl:unmarked
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 days	punct
17	especially	especially	ADV	_	19 days	advmod
18	on	on	ADP	_	19 days	case
19	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 cry	obl
20	like	like	ADP	_	23 Day	case
21	Mother	Mother	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Day	nmod:poss
22	's	's	PART	_	21 Mother	case
23	Day	Day	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 days	nmod
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 normal	punct
25	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	27 normal	nsubj
26	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 normal	cop
27	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 laugh	parataxis
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 judge	punct
29	so	so	ADV	_	33 judge	advmod
30	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 judge	nsubj
31	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 judge	aux
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 judge	advmod
33	judge	judge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 normal	parataxis
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 stand	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 stand	cc
36	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 stand	nsubj
37	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 judge	conj
38	up	up	ADP	_	37 stand	compound:prt
39	for	for	ADP	_	40 them	case
40	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 stand	obl
41	if	if	SCONJ	_	43 do	mark
42	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 do	nsubj
43	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 stand	advcl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 laugh	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grieve	gerund						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	laugh	may	a grieving friend					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	joke speech: other	infinitive	a grieving friend not said here			day		vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	cry speech: express	infinitive	a grieving friend not said here	the next	class	day		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in class=Location
5	is	present	both				normal property	tree rules
6	not judge	present · do-support	we					vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent
7	stand up	present	we				for mum	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:061-when-a-friends-mum-or-dad-dies-what-to-say-and-do.lesson:3.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×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.

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