--- title: Many families visit graves to remember someone, tidy the spot and le… — Funerals and remembering · tree and pragmatics description: Many families visit graves to remember someone, tidy the spot and leave flowers; talking to the person there is normal. Who acts: Many families, talking. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Many families, talking), 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:15 # text = Many families visit graves to remember someone, tidy the spot and leave flowers; talking to the person there is normal. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 visit visit VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 graves grave NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 remember remember VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 7 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 6 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 tidy tidy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 spot spot NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 16 talking talk VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 csubj _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 21 expl _ _ 21 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 22 normal normal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 xcomp _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **visit** | present | Many families | graves | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grave=Co-Agent | | 2 | **remember** | to-infinitive | Many families *not said here* | someone | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent someone=Theme | | 3 | **tidy** | infinitive | Many families *not said here* | the spot | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **leave** | infinitive | Many families *not said here* | flowers | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Theme | | 5 | **talk** | gerund | | | | | | to the person | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to person=Co-Agent | | 6 | **be** | present | talking | | | there | | normal *property* | vn exist-47.1 «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](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:15`. **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): 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Funerals and remembering, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/25-funerals-and-remembering/14/) - next →: [Funerals and remembering, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/25-funerals-and-remembering/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/25-funerals-and-remembering/)