When grown-ups grieve, and how it gets softer, sentence 14
Making new friends after a loss, for example at a lunch club, helps people feel less lonely; it does not replace the person who died.
Who acts: Making, people, club, person · What happens: make, help, feel, not replace, die · To what, where: new friends, lunch club, people, person
This is a sentence of the lesson «When grown-ups grieve, and how it gets softer» 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 (Making, people, club, person), 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 | Making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 helps | csubj |
| 2 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 friends | amod |
| 3 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Making | obj |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 6 loss | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 loss | det |
| 6 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Making | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Making | punct |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 example | case |
| 9 | example | example | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Making | obl |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 club | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 club | det |
| 12 | lunch | lunch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 club | compound |
| 13 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Making | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Making | punct |
| 15 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 helps | obj |
| 17 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 helps | xcomp |
| 18 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 19 lonely | advmod |
| 19 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 feel | xcomp |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 replace | punct |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 replace | nsubj |
| 22 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 replace | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 replace | advmod |
| 24 | replace | replace | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 helps | parataxis |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 person | det |
| 26 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 replace | obj |
| 27 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 died | nsubj |
| 28 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 person | acl:relcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 helps | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | gerund | new friends | a lunch club | after a loss | for example | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent friend=Product for example=Asset | ||
| 2 | help | present | Making | people | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent people=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | feel | infinitive | people not said here | lonely property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | not replace | present · do-support | club | the person | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme person=Co-Theme | ||||
| 5 | die | past | the person | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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:069-when-grown-ups-grieve-and-how-it-gets-softer.lesson:14.
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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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