When grown-ups grieve, and how it gets softer, sentence 2

Grief usually gets softer with time: Oscar's grandad says that a year after his wife died the pain is «like a bruise that's healing», still there when touched, but no longer sharp all the time.

Who acts: Grief, grandad, wife, pain · What happens: get, say, die, be, touch · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Grief, grandad, wife, pain), 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	Grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gets	nsubj
2	usually	usually	ADV	_	3 gets	advmod
3	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	softer	soft	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 gets	xcomp
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 time	case
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 softer	obl
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 Oscar	punct
8	Oscar	Oscar	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 grandad	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Oscar	case
10	grandad	grandad	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 says	nsubj
11	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 gets	parataxis
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 died	mark
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 year	det
14	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 died	obl
15	after	after	SCONJ	_	18 died	mark
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 wife	nmod:poss
17	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 died	nsubj
18	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 says	ccomp
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 pain	det
20	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 healing	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 healing	cop
22	«	«	PUNCT	_	25 bruise	punct
23	like	like	ADP	_	25 bruise	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 bruise	det
25	bruise	bruise	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 healing	obl
26	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 healing	nsubj
27	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 healing	aux
28	healing	heal	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 died	ccomp
29	»	»	PUNCT	_	34 touched	punct
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 touched	punct
31	still	still	ADV	_	32 there	advmod
32	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	34 touched	advmod
33	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	34 touched	advmod
34	touched	touch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 healing	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 sharp	punct
36	but	but	CCONJ	_	39 sharp	cc
37	no	no	ADV	_	38 longer	advmod
38	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	39 sharp	advmod
39	sharp	sharp	ADV	_	34 touched	advmod
40	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	42 time	det:predet
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 time	det
42	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 sharp	obl:unmarked
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 says	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	Grief			soft, usually property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	say speech: assert	present	Oscar's grandad				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	die	past	Grandad's wife		year		vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	is in a quote	present · progressive	the pain			like a bruise; heal property	tree rules
5	touch	participle	the pain not said here	there		sharp property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:2.

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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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.

See the release 0.4.

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