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title: Some families visit the body at the funeral home to say goodbye; the… — When a grandparent dies · tree and pragmatics
description: Some families visit the body at the funeral home to say goodbye; the person looks peaceful but is not breathing and feels cool; children may go if they wish, with a grown-up. Who acts: families, person, children. A sentence of the lesson «When a grandparent dies» of the religion ethics course of Mov
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# When a grandparent dies, sentence 11

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Some families visit the body at the funeral home to say goodbye; the person looks peaceful but is not breathing and feels cool; children may go if they wish, with a grown-up.

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**Who acts:** families, person, children · **What happens:** visit, say, look, not breathe, feel, go · **To what, where:** body, funeral home, goodbye · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «When a grandparent dies» 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 (families, person, children), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:058-when-a-grandparent-dies.lesson:11
# text = Some families visit the body at the funeral home to say goodbye; the person looks peaceful but is not breathing and feels cool; children may go if they wish, with a grown-up.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 058-when-a-grandparent-dies.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 ×1
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	visit	visit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	funeral	funeral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
12	goodbye	goodbye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
17	peaceful	peaceful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	breathing	breathe	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	feels	feel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
24	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	_
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
26	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
27	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
29	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
30	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	wish	wish	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	advcl	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=35:det
35	grown	grow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
36	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	37	punct	_	_
37	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **visit** | present | some families | the body |  | the funeral home |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | some families *not said here* | goodbye |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent goodbye=Topic |
| 3 | **look** | present | the person |  |  |  |  | peaceful *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **not** **breathe** | present · progressive | the person *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **feel** | present | the person *not said here* |  |  |  |  | cool *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 6 | **go** | may | children |  |  |  |  | with a grown up | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with up=Beneficiary |
| 7 | **wish** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | families *= family* |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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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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**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 ×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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