When grown-ups grieve, and how it gets softer, sentence 3

Getting help is part of healing: Ben's mum talks to a grief counsellor, Holly's aunt finds comfort in her church, Charlie's grandad joins a lunch club, and Lily's dad slowly starts laughing again, which is healing, not forgetting.

Who acts: Getting, mum, aunt, grandad, dad · What happens: get, be, talk, find, join, start · To what, where: help, part, comfort, church, lunch club

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 (Getting, mum, aunt, grandad), 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	Getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 part	csubj
2	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Getting	obj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 part	cop
4	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 healing	case
6	healing	healing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 part	nmod
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 talks	punct
8	Ben	Ben	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 mum	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Ben	case
10	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 talks	nsubj
11	talks	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 finds	conj
12	to	to	ADP	_	15 counsellor	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 counsellor	det
14	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 counsellor	compound
15	counsellor	counsellor	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 talks	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 finds	punct
17	Holly	Holly	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 aunt	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 Holly	case
19	aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 finds	nsubj
20	finds	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 part	parataxis
21	comfort	comfort	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 finds	obj
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 church	case
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 church	nmod:poss
24	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 finds	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 joins	punct
26	Charlie	Charlie	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 grandad	nmod:poss
27	's	's	PART	_	26 Charlie	case
28	grandad	grandad	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 joins	nsubj
29	joins	join	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 finds	conj
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 club	det
31	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 club	compound
32	club	club	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 joins	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 starts	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 starts	cc
35	Lily	Lily	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 dad	nmod:poss
36	's	's	PART	_	35 Lily	case
37	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 starts	nsubj
38	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	39 starts	advmod
39	starts	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 finds	conj
40	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	39 starts	xcomp
41	again	again	ADV	_	40 laughing	advmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 healing	punct
43	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	45 healing	nsubj
44	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 healing	aux
45	healing	heal	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	40 laughing	conj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 forgetting	punct
47	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	48 forgetting	advmod
48	forgetting	forget	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	45 healing	conj
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 part	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	gerund		help				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer help=Stimulus
2	is a	present	Getting	part			of healing	tree rules
3	talk	present	Ben's mum				to a grief counsellor	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to counsellor=Co-Agent
4	find	present	Holly's aunt	comfort	mum's church			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent comfort=Topic
5	join	present	Charlie's grandad	a lunch club				vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent club=Patient
6	start	present	Lily's dad				slowly property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	laugh	gerund	Lily's dad not said here			again		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	heal	present · progressive						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
9	not forget	gerund						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:069-when-grown-ups-grieve-and-how-it-gets-softer.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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.

See the release 0.4.

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