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title: Children can choose whether to go to a funeral, after a grown-up exp… — The church funeral · tree and pragmatics
description: Children can choose whether to go to a funeral, after a grown-up explains what will happen. Who acts: Children, grown. A sentence of the lesson «The church funeral» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The church funeral, sentence 15

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Children can choose whether to go to a funeral, after a grown-up explains what will happen.

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**Who acts:** Children, grown · **What happens:** choose, go, explain, happen · **To what, where:** funeral · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The church funeral» 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 (Children, grown), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:062-the-church-funeral.lesson:15
# text = Children can choose whether to go to a funeral, after a grown-up explains what will happen.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 062-the-church-funeral.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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	choose	choose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	funeral	funeral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:det
13	grown	grow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	_
15	up	up	PART	RP	_	13	compound	_	_
16	explains	explain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:advcl
17	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	19	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:obj
18	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	ccomp	_	_
20	.	.	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 | **choose** | can | Children |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | to-infinitive | Children *not said here* |  |  | a funeral |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to funeral=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **explain** *speech: assert* | present | grown |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **happen** | future |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:062-the-church-funeral.lesson:15`.

**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, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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