--- title: A pet burial can have words, a song or silence; Christians might say… — Garden burials, wild animals and a new pet «too… · tree and pragmatics description: A pet burial can have words, a song or silence; Christians might say a short prayer of thanks, and others a poem or a few words. Who acts: pet burial, Christians, thanks. A sentence of the lesson «Garden burials, wild animals and a new pet «too soon»» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary --- [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/5/) [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/) / 5 # Garden burials, wild animals and a new pet «too soon», sentence 5 A pet burial can have words, a song or silence; Christians might say a short prayer of thanks, and others a poem or a few words. **Who acts:** pet burial, Christians, thanks · **What happens:** have, say, pray · **To what, where:** words, short prayer · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (pet burial, Christians, thanks), 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:5 # text = A pet burial can have words, a song or silence; Christians might say a short prayer of thanks, and others a poem or a few words. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 pet pet NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 burial burial NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 song song NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:appos 10 or or CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 silence silence NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 Christians Christian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 14 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 prayer prayer NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 thanks thanks NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 poem poem NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 26 or or CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 conj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | can | a pet burial | words and a song or silence | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | might | Christians and others | a short prayer of thanks | | | | | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent prayer=Theme poem=Manner | | 3 | **pray** | | thanks | | | | | | nom prayer «act intransitive»: of=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:religion-ethics:057-garden-burials-wild-animals-and-a-new-pet-too-soon.lesson:5`. **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. 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