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title: People show sadness in different ways: some cry, some cry later, som… — The church funeral · tree and pragmatics
description: People show sadness in different ways: some cry, some cry later, some laugh at the funny stories, and a four-year-old may ask loudly about McDonald's; all of it can belong at a funeral. Who acts: People, some, four year, all. A sentence of the lesson «The church funeral» of the religion ethics cours
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# The church funeral, sentence 3

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People show sadness in different ways: some cry, some cry later, some laugh at the funny stories, and a four-year-old may ask loudly about McDonald's; all of it can belong at a funeral.

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**Who acts:** People, some, four year, all · **What happens:** show, laugh, ask, belong · **To what, where:** sadness, funny stories, funeral

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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 (People, some, four year, all), 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:3
# text = People show sadness in different ways: some cry, some cry later, some laugh at the funny stories, and a four-year-old may ask loudly about McDonald's; all of it can belong at a funeral.
# 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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	show	show	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	sadness	sadness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
8	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
9	cry	cry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
12	cry	cry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
13	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	16	advmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:det
16	laugh	laugh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	funny	funny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:det
24	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	_
26	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	_
28	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:amod
29	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
31	loudly	loudly	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
32	about	about	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	McDonald	McDonald	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	's	's	PART	POS	_	33	case	_	_
35	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	40	punct	_	_
36	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	40	nsubj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nmod	_	_
39	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	belong	belong	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	parataxis	_	_
41	at	at	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	funeral	funeral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **show** | present | People | sadness |  |  |  | in different ways  some cry and some cry | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent sadness=Patient in way=Topic |
| 2 | **laugh** |  | some |  |  | the funny stories |  | late *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | may | four year |  |  |  |  | about McDonald; loudly *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.topic whether S»: agent=Agent about mcdonald=Topic |
| 4 | **belong** | can | all |  |  | a funeral |  |  | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: 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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**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 ×3, 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.

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