--- title: Faiths differ: many Christians choose either burial or cremation, Ca… — Burial, cremation, the wake and the grave · tree and pragmatics description: Faiths differ: many Christians choose either burial or cremation, Catholic and Orthodox Christians often prefer burial, Hindus and Sikhs usually cremate, and Muslims and Orthodox Jews bury, Muslims usually in a simple white cloth within a day, as a sign that everyone is equal in death. 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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 (Faiths, many Christians, Catholic Christians, 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:4 # text = Faiths differ: many Christians choose either burial or cremation, Catholic and Orthodox Christians often prefer burial, Hindus and Sikhs usually cremate, and Muslims and Orthodox Jews bury, Muslims usually in a simple white cloth within a day, as a sign that everyone is equal in death. # 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): R1-cc-next ×4, R5-strong ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Faiths faith NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 differ differ VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 : : PUNCT : _ 2 punct _ _ 4 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 Christians Christian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 6 choose choose VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 7 either either CCONJ CC _ 8 cc:preconj _ _ 8 burial burial NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 or or CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=8:cc 10 cremation cremation NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 Catholic catholic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 14 Orthodox orthodox ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 15 Christians Christian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:conj 16 often often ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 prefer prefer VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 18 burial burial NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct 20 Hindus Hindu PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=20:cc 22 Sikhs Sikh PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 20 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 23 usually usually ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 cremate cremate VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=24:cc 27 Muslims Muslim PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=27:cc 29 Orthodox orthodox ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 30 Jews Jew PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 27 conj _ _ 31 bury bury VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 Muslims Muslim PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 34 usually usually ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 37 simple simple ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 38 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 cloth cloth NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 parataxis _ _ 40 within within ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nmod _ _ 43 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 44 as as ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 sign sign NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:parataxis 47 that that SCONJ IN _ 50 mark _ _ 48 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 50 nsubj _ _ 49 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 50 cop _ _ 50 equal equal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 acl _ _ 51 in in ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 52 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 obl _ _ 53 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **differ** | present | Faiths | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **choose** | present | many Christians | burial or cremation | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent burial=Theme | | 3 | **prefer** | present | Catholic Christians | burial | | | | often *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer burial=Stimulus | | 4 | **cremate** | present | Hindus and Sikhs | Muslims | | | | usually *property* | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **bury** | present | Muslims and Orthodox Jews | | | | | as a sign | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is** | present | everyone | a sign *not said here* | | death | | equal *property* | tree rules | 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:4`. **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): R1-cc-next ×4, R5-strong ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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. 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