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description: Many Hindu families hold prayers and gatherings for about thirteen days after a death; Hindus believe the soul moves on to a new life. Who acts: Many Hindu families, Hindus, soul. A sentence of the lesson «When a friend's mum or dad dies: what to say and do» of the religion ethics course of Mova's p
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# When a friend's mum or dad dies: what to say and do, sentence 11

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Many Hindu families hold prayers and gatherings for about thirteen days after a death; Hindus believe the soul moves on to a new life.

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**Who acts:** Many Hindu families, Hindus, soul · **What happens:** hold, believe, move on · **To what, where:** prayers, new life · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «When a friend's mum or dad dies: what to say and do» 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 (Many Hindu families, Hindus, soul), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:061-when-a-friends-mum-or-dad-dies-what-to-say-and-do.lesson:11
# text = Many Hindu families hold prayers and gatherings for about thirteen days after a death; Hindus believe the soul moves on to a new life.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 061-when-a-friends-mum-or-dad-dies-what-to-say-and-do.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	Hindu	hindu	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	hold	hold	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	prayers	prayer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	gatherings	gathering	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	about	about	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	thirteen	thirteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
12	after	after	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:nmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	Hindus	Hindu	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
17	believe	believe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	moves	move	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	ccomp	_	_
21	on	on	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **hold** | present | Many Hindu families | prayers and gatherings |  |  | after a death; day |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prayer=Theme |
| 2 | **believe** | present | Hindus |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **move on** | present | the soul |  |  | a new life |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to life=Trajectory |

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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:religion-ethics:061-when-a-friends-mum-or-dad-dies-what-to-say-and-do.lesson:11`.

**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, R8-pos-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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