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title: Picture a small church in Wellington: at the front stands a long woo… — Funerals and remembering · tree and pragmatics
description: Picture a small church in Wellington: at the front stands a long wooden box covered in flowers, the coffin. Who acts: you, long wooden box. 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 claus
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# Funerals and remembering, sentence 2

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Picture a small church in Wellington: at the front stands a long wooden box covered in flowers, the coffin.

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**Who acts:** you, long wooden box · **What happens:** picture, stand, cover · **To what, where:** small church, Wellington, front, long wooden box

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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 (you, long wooden box), 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:2
# text = Picture a small church in Wellington: at the front stands a long wooden box covered in flowers, the coffin.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Picture	picture	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Wellington	Wellington	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
11	stands	stand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:conj
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
16	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	coffin	coffin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- 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 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | a small church |  | Wellington |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent church=Theme |
| 2 | **stand** | present | a long wooden box |  |  | the front |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at front=Location |
| 3 | **cover** | participle |  | a long wooden box *not said here* |  |  |  | in flowers | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in flower=Theme |

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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:2`.

**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): R7-rel-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/).

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