--- title: When someone cannot travel to a funeral, they can say goodbye by lig… — When a grandparent dies · tree and pragmatics description: When someone cannot travel to a funeral, they can say goodbye by lighting a candle, writing a letter, looking at photos or joining by video. Who acts: someone, Christians. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (someone, Christians), 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:13 # text = When someone cannot travel to a funeral, they can say goodbye by lighting a candle, writing a letter, looking at photos or joining by video. # 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 5 advmod _ _ 2 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 5 nsubj _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 travel travel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 6 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 funeral funeral NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 11 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj 13 goodbye goodbye NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 14 by by SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 15 lighting light VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 advcl _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 candle candle NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 writing write VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 conj _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 letter letter NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 looking look VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 15 conj _ _ 24 at at ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 photos photo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 26 or or CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 joining join VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 23 conj _ _ 28 by by ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 video video NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=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 | **not** **travel** | can | someone | | | a funeral | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to funeral=Destination | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | can | Christians *= christian* | goodbye | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent goodbye=Topic | | 3 | **light** | gerund | Christians *= christian* *not said here* | a candle | | | | | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent candle=Product | | 4 | **write** | gerund | Christians *= christian* *not said here* | a letter | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Theme | | 5 | **look** | gerund | Christians *= christian* *not said here* | | | | | at photos | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at photo=Theme | | 6 | **join** | gerund | Christians *= christian* *not said here* | | | | | by video | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | 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:058-when-a-grandparent-dies.lesson:13`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-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/). - ← previous: [When a grandparent dies, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/58-when-a-grandparent-dies/12/) - next →: [When a grandparent dies, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/58-when-a-grandparent-dies/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/58-when-a-grandparent-dies/)