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title: At a funeral it is fine to cry or to be quiet, and asking what will… — Moving, new schools, change and grief · tree and pragmatics
description: At a funeral it is fine to cry or to be quiet, and asking what will happen beforehand helps. Who acts: asking. A sentence of the lesson «Moving, new schools, change and grief» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Moving, new schools, change and grief, sentence 15

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At a funeral it is fine to cry or to be quiet, and asking what will happen beforehand helps.

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**Who acts:** asking · **What happens:** be, cry, ask, happen, help · **To what, where:** funeral · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Moving, new schools, change and grief» 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 (asking), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:097-moving-change-and-grief.lesson:15
# text = At a funeral it is fine to cry or to be quiet, and asking what will happen beforehand helps.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 097-moving-change-and-grief.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
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	6	obl	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	expl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	cry	cry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:xcomp
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
12	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
15	asking	ask	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	csubj	_	_
16	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	18	nsubj	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	ccomp	_	_
19	beforehand	beforehand	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  | a funeral |  | fine *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | quiet *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **happen** | future |  |  |  |  |  | beforehand *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **help** | present | asking |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |

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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:097-moving-change-and-grief.lesson:15`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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/).

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