--- title: A cenotaph is a stone war memorial in a town, where people gather fo… — Quiet places and solemn moments · tree and pragmatics description: A cenotaph is a stone war memorial in a town, where people gather for a minute's silence to remember those who died in wars. Who acts: cenotaph, people, minute. 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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 (cenotaph, people, minute), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:224-quiet-places-and-solemn-moments.lesson:16 # text = A cenotaph is a stone war memorial in a town, where people gather for a minute's silence to remember those who died in wars. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 224-quiet-places-and-solemn-moments.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 ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 cenotaph cenotaph NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:compound 6 war war NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 memorial memorial NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 14 advmod _ _ 13 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 14 gather gather VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 15 for for ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 minute minute NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod:poss _ _ 18 's 's PART POS _ 17 case _ _ 19 silence silence NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 remember remember VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:acl 22 those that PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 21 obj _ _ 23 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 24 nsubj _ _ 24 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 acl:relcl _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 wars war NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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 | **is a** | present | a cenotaph | a stone war memorial | | a town | | | tree rules | | 2 | **gather** | present | people | | | | | for a minute's silence | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for silence=Beneficiary | | 3 | **remember** | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | those | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent that=Theme | | 4 | **die** | past | | | | | | in wars | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in war=Attribute | | 5 | **silence** | | a minute | | | | | | nom silence «state transitive»: poss=agent | 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:everyday:224-quiet-places-and-solemn-moments.lesson:16`. **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 ×2. **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: [Quiet places and solemn moments, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/224-quiet-places-and-solemn-moments/15/) - next →: [Quiet places and solemn moments, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/224-quiet-places-and-solemn-moments/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/224-quiet-places-and-solemn-moments/)