--- title: After death a body slowly breaks down into the soil; digging up even… — Garden burials, wild animals and a new pet «too… · tree and pragmatics description: After death a body slowly breaks down into the soil; digging up even a small grave is not a good idea and can spread germs. Who acts: body, digging. A sentence of the lesson «Garden burials, wild animals and a new pet «too soon»» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its depend --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/57-garden-burials-wild-animals-and-a-new-pet-too-soon/12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/) / [Garden burials, wild animals and a new…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/57-garden-burials-wild-animals-and-a-new-pet-too-soon/) / 12 # Garden burials, wild animals and a new pet «too soon», sentence 12 After death a body slowly breaks down into the soil; digging up even a small grave is not a good idea and can spread germs. **Who acts:** body, digging · **What happens:** break down, dig up, not be, spread · **To what, where:** soil, small grave, good idea, germs This is a sentence of the lesson «Garden burials, wild animals and a new pet «too soon»» of the religion ethics 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 (body, digging), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:057-garden-burials-wild-animals-and-a-new-pet-too-soon.lesson:12 # text = After death a body slowly breaks down into the soil; digging up even a small grave is not a good idea and can spread germs. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 057-garden-burials-wild-animals-and-a-new-pet-too-soon.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 After after ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 breaks break VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 down down ADP RP _ 6 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 8 into into ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 soil soil NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:obl 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 digging dig VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 csubj _ _ 13 up up ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ _ 14 even even ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 grave grave NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 19 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 22 advmod _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 idea idea NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 parataxis _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=22:cc 24 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 spread spread VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 conj _ _ 26 germs germ NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=neg | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **break down** | present | a body | | | | after death | into the soil *result*; slowly *property* | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into soil=Result | | 2 | **dig up** | gerund | | a small grave | | | | | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent grave=Theme | | 3 | **not** **is a** | present | digging | a good idea | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **spread** | can | digging *not said here* | germs | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location germ=Theme | 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:religion-ethics:057-garden-burials-wild-animals-and-a-new-pet-too-soon.lesson:12`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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. 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