--- title: Catholics are asked to keep ashes in a sacred place, such as a churc… — Burial, cremation, the wake and the grave · tree and pragmatics description: Catholics are asked to keep ashes in a sacred place, such as a churchyard, rather than at home or scattered; Hindus often scatter ashes in a river such as the Ganges. Who acts: Catholics, Hindus. 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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 (Catholics, Hindus), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:063-burial-cremation-the-wake-and-the-grave.lesson:12 # text = Catholics are asked to keep ashes in a sacred place, such as a churchyard, rather than at home or scattered; Hindus often scatter ashes in a river such as the Ganges. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 063-burial-cremation-the-wake-and-the-grave.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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×4 1 Catholics Catholic PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 asked ask VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 ashes ash NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 sacred sacred ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 15 case _ _ 13 as as ADP IN _ 12 fixed _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 churchyard churchyard NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:appos 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 rather rather ADV RB ExtPos=CCONJ 20 cc _ _ 18 than than ADP IN _ 17 fixed _ _ 19 at at ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 21 or or CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 scattered scatter VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 24 Hindus Hindu PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 25 often often ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 scatter scatter VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 27 ashes ash NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:obl 31 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 34 case _ _ 32 as as ADP IN _ 31 fixed _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 Ganges Ganges PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 30 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=30:nmod|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 35 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present · passive | | Catholics | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **keep** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Catholics *not said here* | ashes | | a sacred place such a churchyard | | at home | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ash=Theme in place=Location | | 3 | **scatter** | participle | Catholics *not said here* | | | | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **scatter** | present | Hindus | ashes | | a river such the Ganges | | often *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ash=Theme in river=Destination | 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:063-burial-cremation-the-wake-and-the-grave.lesson:12`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×4. **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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