--- title: At a funeral in Ireland some children laughed loudly and played on t… — Quiet places and solemn moments · tree and pragmatics description: At a funeral in Ireland some children laughed loudly and played on their phones; the family who had lost their mum were deeply hurt, and the children's parents had to apologise. Who acts: children, family, parents. 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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, family, parents), 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:19 # text = At a funeral in Ireland some children laughed loudly and played on their phones; the family who had lost their mum were deeply hurt, and the children's parents had to apologise. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 At at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 funeral funeral NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Ireland Ireland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 7 det _ _ 7 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 8 laughed laugh VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 loudly loudly ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 played play VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 12 on on ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 phones phone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj:pass _ _ 18 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 20 nsubj _ _ 19 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 17 acl:relcl _ _ 21 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux:pass _ _ 24 deeply deeply ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 hurt hurt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 26 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nmod:poss _ _ 30 's 's PART POS _ 29 case _ _ 31 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 32 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 apologise apologise VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 xcomp _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **laugh** | past | some children | | | a funeral in Ireland | | loudly *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **play** | past | some children *not said here* | | | children's phones | | | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **lose** | past · perfect | the family | children's mum | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mum=Eventuality | | 4 | **hurt** | past · passive | | the family | | | | deeply *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 5 | **have** | past | the children's parents | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **apologise** *speech: apologize* | to-infinitive | the children's parents *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | 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:19`. **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/). - ← previous: [Quiet places and solemn moments, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/224-quiet-places-and-solemn-moments/18/) - next →: [Quiet places and solemn moments, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/224-quiet-places-and-solemn-moments/20/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/224-quiet-places-and-solemn-moments/)