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title: Using «RIP» as a joke can hurt someone who is grieving. — Burial, cremation, the wake and the grave · tree and pragmatics
description: Using «RIP» as a joke can hurt someone who is grieving. Who acts: Using. A sentence of the lesson «Burial, cremation, the wake and the grave» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Burial, cremation, the wake and the grave, sentence 14

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Using «RIP» as a joke can hurt someone who is grieving.

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**Who acts:** Using · **What happens:** use, hurt, grieve · **To what, where:** RIP, someone

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Burial, cremation, the wake and the grave» 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 (Using), 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:14
# text = Using «RIP» as a joke can hurt someone who is grieving.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×2
1	Using	use	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	csubj	_	_
2	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct
3	RIP	rip	X	GW	_	1	obj	_	_
4	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	hurt	hurt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	9	obj	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	grieving	grieve	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **use** | gerund |  | RIP |  |  |  | as a joke | vn spend\_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent rip=Duration as joke=Attribute |
| 2 | **hurt** | can | Using | someone |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer someone=Patient |
| 3 | **grieve** | present · progressive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:063-burial-cremation-the-wake-and-the-grave.lesson:14`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×2. **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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