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title: At a funeral or memorial, dress neatly, stay quiet and follow the fa… — Phone calls, visiting, thank-you notes, interrup… · tree and pragmatics
description: At a funeral or memorial, dress neatly, stay quiet and follow the family's lead, because people are sad. Who acts: you, people. A sentence of the lesson «Phone calls, visiting, thank-you notes, interrupting and quiet places» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree an
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# Phone calls, visiting, thank-you notes, interrupting and quiet places, sentence 23

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At a funeral or memorial, dress neatly, stay quiet and follow the family's lead, because people are sad.

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**Who acts:** you, people · **What happens:** dress, stay, follow, be · **To what, where:** funeral, lead

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Phone calls, visiting, thank-you notes, interrupting and quiet places» of the everyday 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 (you, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:297-calls-visits-thank-yous-and-quiet-places.lesson:23
# text = At a funeral or memorial, dress neatly, stay quiet and follow the family's lead, because people are sad.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 297-calls-visits-thank-yous-and-quiet-places.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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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	10	obl	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	memorial	memorial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:conj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	dress	dress	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:conj
8	neatly	neatly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct
10	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
11	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	lead	lead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
21	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	advcl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **dress** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | neatly *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **stay** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | a funeral or memorial |  | quiet *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at funeral=Location |
| 3 | **follow** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the family's lead |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lead=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present | people |  |  |  |  | sad *property* | tree rules |

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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:everyday:297-calls-visits-thank-yous-and-quiet-places.lesson:23`.

**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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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