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title: Burial means the coffin is put into a grave in the ground and covere… — Funerals and remembering · tree and pragmatics
description: Burial means the coffin is put into a grave in the ground and covered with earth; a headstone with the name is added later. Who acts: Burial. A sentence of the lesson «Funerals and remembering» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Funerals and remembering, sentence 14

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Burial means the coffin is put into a grave in the ground and covered with earth; a headstone with the name is added later.

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**Who acts:** Burial · **What happens:** mean, put, cover, add · **To what, where:** coffin, grave, headstone · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Funerals and remembering» of the adult life 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 (Burial), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:025-funerals-and-remembering.lesson:14
# text = Burial means the coffin is put into a grave in the ground and covered with earth; a headstone with the name is added later.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 025-funerals-and-remembering.lesson
# annotation = 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
1	Burial	burial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	coffin	coffin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	ccomp	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	headstone	headstone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
20	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:nsubj:pass
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	added	add	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl:relcl	_	_
25	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	24	advmod	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Burial |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **put** | present · passive |  | the coffin |  | a grave |  | in the ground | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in ground=Destination |
| 3 | **cover** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with earth and a headstone  the name | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with earth=Theme |
| 4 | **add** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | a headstone  the name *not said here* |  |  |  | late *property* | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle» |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:adult-life:025-funerals-and-remembering.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 ×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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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