--- title: Children are usually welcome at funerals; many say later they were g… — Funerals and remembering · tree and pragmatics description: Children are usually welcome at funerals; many say later they were glad they went, and a grown-up should look after them during it. Who acts: Children, many, a. 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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 (Children, many, a), 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:9 # text = Children are usually welcome at funerals; many say later they were glad they went, and a grown-up should look after them during it. # 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): R4-particle ×1 1 Children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 usually usually ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 welcome welcome ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 at at ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 funerals funeral NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 7 ; ; PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 nsubj _ _ 9 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 10 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 13 advmod _ _ 11 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 13 glad glad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 ccomp _ _ 14 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 ccomp _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 nsubj _ _ 19 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 acl _ _ 20 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ _ 21 up up NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound:prt _ Agree=R4-particle|Haiku=19:compound|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_ 22 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 parataxis _ _ 24 after after ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obl _ _ 26 during during ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obl _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Children | | | funerals | | usually, welcome *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | many | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | past | Children *= child* | | | | | glad, late *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **go** | past | Children *= child* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **grow up** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **look** | should | a | | | | after Children *= child*; during funeral | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | 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:9`. **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): R4-particle ×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, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/25-funerals-and-remembering/7/) - next →: [Funerals and remembering, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/25-funerals-and-remembering/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/25-funerals-and-remembering/)