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title: At many crematorium services curtains close around the coffin at the… — Burial, cremation, the wake and the grave · tree and pragmatics
description: At many crematorium services curtains close around the coffin at the end, as a sign of goodbye. Who acts: curtains. 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 9

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At many crematorium services curtains close around the coffin at the end, as a sign of goodbye.

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**Who acts:** curtains · **What happens:** close, sign · **To what, where:** many crematorium services, goodbye

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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 (curtains), 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:9
# text = At many crematorium services curtains close around the coffin at the end, as a sign of goodbye.
# 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
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	crematorium	crematorium	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	services	service	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
5	curtains	curtain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	close	close	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	around	around	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	coffin	coffin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	goodbye	goodbye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **close** | present | curtains |  |  | many crematorium services | at the end | around the coffin; as a sign of goodbye | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **sign** |  |  | goodbye |  |  |  |  | nom sign «communication transitive»: of=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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**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. **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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