When a friend's mum or dad dies: what to say and do, sentence 8

Grieving children often swing between sadness and being normal; laughing and playing is a rest from sadness, not a sign they don't care.

Who acts: Grieving children, laughing, children · What happens: grieve, swing, be, laugh, play, not care · To what, where: sadness, rest, sign

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 children, laughing, children), 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	Grieving	grieve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 children	amod
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 swing	nsubj
3	often	often	ADV	_	4 swing	advmod
4	swing	swing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	between	between	ADP	_	6 sadness	case
6	sadness	sadness	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 swing	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 normal	cc
8	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 normal	cop
9	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sadness	conj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 laughing	punct
11	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 rest	csubj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 playing	cc
13	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 laughing	conj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 rest	cop
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 rest	det
16	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 swing	parataxis
17	from	from	ADP	_	18 sadness	case
18	sadness	sadness	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 rest	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sign	punct
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 sign	advmod
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 sign	det
22	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 rest	parataxis
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 care	nsubj
24	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 care	aux
25	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 care	advmod
26	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 sign	acl:relcl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 swing	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	grieve	gerund					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	swing	present	Grieving children		sadness	often property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme between sadness=Trajectory
3	is	gerund	Grieving children not said here			normal property	tree rules
4	laugh	gerund					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	play	gerund					vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is a	present	laughing	a rest	sadness		tree rules
7	not care	present · do-support	children = child	a sign not said here			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:061-when-a-friends-mum-or-dad-dies-what-to-say-and-do.lesson:8.

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): R1-cc-next ×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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