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title: "Final resting place" means a person's grave. — Soft words for hard things: death and dying · tree and pragmatics
description: "Final resting place" means a person's grave. Who acts: Final resting place. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: death and dying» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Soft words for hard things: death and dying, sentence 24

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"Final resting place" means a person's grave.

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**Who acts:** Final resting place · **What happens:** mean · **To what, where:** grave

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: death and dying» of the euphemisms 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 (Final resting place), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:euphemisms:001-death-polite-and-joking.lesson:24
# text = "Final resting place" means a person's grave.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = euphemisms
# lesson = 001-death-polite-and-joking.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): R5-strong ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
2	Final	final	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	resting	resting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:det
8	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **mean** | present | Final resting place | a person's grave |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grave=Topic |

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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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**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): R5-strong ×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.

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