--- title: Families sometimes pay for a bench, tree or plaque in a place the pe… — Funerals and remembering · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: Families, person, sitting, that. 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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 (Families, person, sitting, that), 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:19 # text = 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. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 sometimes sometimes ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 pay pay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 parataxis _ _ 4 for for ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 bench bench NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 9 or or CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 plaque plaque NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=8:conj 11 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 loved love VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl:relcl _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 18 sitting sit VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 24 csubj _ _ 19 on on ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 memorial memorial ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 bench bench NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 24 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 28 nsubj _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 28 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 24 parataxis _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:nsubj 30 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 31 for for ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24: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 | **pay** | infinitive | Families | | | a place | | for a bench and tree or plaque; sometimes *property* | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for bench=Theme | | 2 | **love** | past | the person | a place *not said here* | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer place=Stimulus | | 3 | **sit** | gerund | | | | a memorial bench | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bench=Location | | 4 | **is** | present | sitting | | | | | fine *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | present | that | | | | | | 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](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:19`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/25-funerals-and-remembering/18/) - next →: [What people leave behind, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/26-what-people-leave-behind/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/25-funerals-and-remembering/)