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title: Sports teams often wear black armbands or hold a minute's silence or… — When a friend's mum or dad dies: what to say and… · tree and pragmatics
description: Sports teams often wear black armbands or hold a minute's silence or applause to show respect and support. Who acts: Sports teams, minute. 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 with its dependency tree an
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# When a friend's mum or dad dies: what to say and do, sentence 12

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Sports teams often wear black armbands or hold a minute's silence or applause to show respect and support.

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**Who acts:** Sports teams, minute · **What happens:** wear, hold, show, silence · **To what, where:** black armbands, silence, respect

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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 (Sports teams, minute), 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:12
# text = Sports teams often wear black armbands or hold a minute's silence or applause to show respect and support.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Sports	sport	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	compound	_	_
2	teams	team	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	often	often	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	wear	wear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	armbands	armband	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	hold	hold	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	applause	applause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
17	respect	respect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	support	support	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **wear** | present | Sports teams | black armbands |  |  |  | often *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent armband=Source |
| 2 | **hold** | present | Sports teams *not said here* | a minute's silence or applause |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent silence=Theme |
| 3 | **show** | to-infinitive | Sports teams *not said here* | respect and support |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent respect=Recipient |
| 4 | **silence** |  | a minute |  |  |  |  |  | nom silence «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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): 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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