When a friend's mum or dad dies: what to say and do, sentence 6

Sentences starting «at least» can make a grieving person feel their loss doesn't count, even when they are meant kindly.

Who acts: Sentences, grieving person, loss · What happens: start, make, grieve, feel, not count, mean · To what, where: least, grieving person, Sentences

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 (Sentences, grieving person, loss), 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	Sentences	sentence	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 make	nsubj
2	starting	start	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Sentences	acl
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 least	punct
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 least	case
5	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 starting	obl
6	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 least	punct
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 make	aux
8	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 person	det
10	grieving	grieve	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 person	amod
11	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 make	obj
12	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 make	xcomp
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 loss	nmod:poss
14	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 count	nsubj
15	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 count	aux
16	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 count	advmod
17	count	count	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 feel	ccomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 meant	punct
19	even	even	ADV	_	23 meant	advmod
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 meant	advmod
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 meant	nsubj
22	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 meant	aux:pass
23	meant	mean	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 count	advcl
24	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	23 meant	advmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 make	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	start	gerund	Sentences not said here		least		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	make	can	Sentences	a grieving person			tree rules
3	grieve	gerund					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	feel	infinitive	a grieving person not said here				vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	not count	present · do-support	Sentences's loss				vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
6	mean	present · passive		Sentences = sentence		kindly property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:061-when-a-friends-mum-or-dad-dies-what-to-say-and-do.lesson:6.

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): R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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