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title: Muslims usually bury their dead within a day, wrapped in a simple wh… — Burial, cremation, the wake and the grave · tree and pragmatics
description: Muslims usually bury their dead within a day, wrapped in a simple white cloth called a shroud; Jews often use a plain wooden coffin. Who acts: Muslims, simple white cloth, Jews. A sentence of the lesson «Burial, cremation, the wake and the grave» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary schoo
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# Burial, cremation, the wake and the grave, sentence 15

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Muslims usually bury their dead within a day, wrapped in a simple white cloth called a shroud; Jews often use a plain wooden coffin.

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**Who acts:** Muslims, simple white cloth, Jews · **What happens:** bury, wrap, call, use · **To what, where:** dead, simple white cloth, shroud, plain wooden coffin · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Muslims, simple white cloth, Jews), 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:15
# text = Muslims usually bury their dead within a day, wrapped in a simple white cloth called a shroud; Jews often use a plain wooden coffin.
# 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 ×1
1	Muslims	Muslim	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
2	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	bury	bury	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	dead	dead	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	within	within	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	wrapped	wrap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:acl
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	simple	simple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	shroud	shroud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
20	Jews	Jew	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
21	often	often	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	plain	plain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	coffin	coffin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
27	.	.	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 | **bury** | present | Muslims | Muslims's dead |  |  | day | usually *property* | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dead=Theme |
| 2 | **wrap** | participle | Muslims *not said here* |  |  | a simple white cloth |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in cloth=Destination |
| 3 | **call** | participle | a simple white cloth *not said here* | a shroud |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent shroud=Recipient |
| 4 | **use** | present | Jews | a plain wooden coffin |  |  |  | often *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coffin=Patient |

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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: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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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.

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

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