--- title: Funerals and remembering — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Funerals and remembering», a lesson of the adult life course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: A funeral is a ceremony where family and friends say goodbye to someone who has died. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/25-funerals-and-remembering/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/) / Funerals and remembering # Funerals and remembering Lesson 25 of the adult life course of Mova's primary school: 18 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/adult-life/25-funerals-and-remembering/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/25-funerals-and-remembering/0/) — A funeral is a ceremony where family and friends say goodbye to someone who has died. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/25-funerals-and-remembering/1/) — They share memories, sing or pray, and then the body is buried or cremated. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/25-funerals-and-remembering/2/) — Picture a small church in Wellington: at the front stands a long wooden box covered in flowers, the coffin. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/25-funerals-and-remembering/3/) — Afterwards everyone goes to the pub, and some people even laugh while telling stories about Grandad. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/25-funerals-and-remembering/4/) — Remembering does not stop after the funeral. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/25-funerals-and-remembering/5/) — Families visit graves, send cards, mark the anniversary, hold memorial services and even put up benches with little plaques. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/25-funerals-and-remembering/6/) — Children are usually welcome at funerals, and it is their choice whether to go. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/25-funerals-and-remembering/7/) — Asking what will happen first makes it less strange. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/25-funerals-and-remembering/9/) — Children are usually welcome at funerals; many say later they were glad they went, and a grown-up should look after them during it. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/25-funerals-and-remembering/10/) — A wake is a gathering after a funeral where people eat, drink and share stories; laughing there does not mean nobody is sad. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/25-funerals-and-remembering/11/) — The coffin is the long box that holds the body of the person who died; it is often closed, and it goes to the grave or the crematorium. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/25-funerals-and-remembering/12/) — Cremation means the body is burned in a crematorium until only ashes are left; the dead person cannot feel anything. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/25-funerals-and-remembering/13/) — After a cremation the ashes are given to the family in an urn and may be buried, kept or scattered somewhere the person loved. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/25-funerals-and-remembering/14/) — Burial means the coffin is put into a grave in the ground and covered with earth; a headstone with the name is added later. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/25-funerals-and-remembering/15/) — Many families visit graves to remember someone, tidy the spot and leave flowers; talking to the person there is normal. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/25-funerals-and-remembering/16/) — The anniversary of a death often brings the sadness back strongly; families may light a candle, visit the grave or share stories. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/25-funerals-and-remembering/18/) — A memorial service remembers someone who has died, usually without the coffin, and may be months after the funeral; it is often more about celebrating the life. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/25-funerals-and-remembering/19/) — Families sometimes pay for a bench, tree or plaque in a place the person loved; sitting on a memorial bench is fine, that is what it is for. - ← previous: [When someone dies](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/24-when-someone-dies/) - next →: [What people leave behind](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/26-what-people-leave-behind/) - ↑ back to [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/)