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title: Families visit graves, send cards, mark the anniversary, hold memori… — Funerals and remembering · tree and pragmatics
description: Families visit graves, send cards, mark the anniversary, hold memorial services and even put up benches with little plaques. Who acts: Families. 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 
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# Funerals and remembering, sentence 5

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Families visit graves, send cards, mark the anniversary, hold memorial services and even put up benches with little plaques.

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**Who acts:** Families · **What happens:** visit, send, mark, hold, put up · **To what, where:** graves, cards, anniversary, memorial services, benches

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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 (Families), 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:5
# text = Families visit graves, send cards, mark the anniversary, hold memorial services and even put up benches with little plaques.
# 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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	visit	visit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	graves	grave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	send	send	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
6	cards	card	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	mark	mark	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=5:conj
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	anniversary	anniversary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=5:conj
13	memorial	memorial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	services	service	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	even	even	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
18	up	up	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	benches	bench	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	plaques	plaque	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **visit** | present | Families | graves |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grave=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **send** | present | Families *not said here* | cards |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent card=Theme |
| 3 | **mark** | infinitive | Families *not said here* | the anniversary |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent anniversary=Destination |
| 4 | **hold** | infinitive | Families *not said here* | memorial services |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent service=Theme |
| 5 | **put up** | infinitive | Families *not said here* | benches |  |  |  | with little plaques | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent bench=Goal |

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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:5`.

**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 ×2, 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/).

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