--- title: Days of remembering: sorokovyny, memorial days, Remembrance Day and the poppy — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Days of remembering: sorokovyny, memorial days, Remembrance Day and the poppy», a lesson of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: The funeral is not the last goodbye: many families and whole countries keep special --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/64-days-of-remembering-sorokovyny-remembrance-day-and-the-poppy/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/) / Days of remembering: sorokovyny, memor… # Days of remembering: sorokovyny, memorial days, Remembrance Day and the poppy Lesson 64 of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school: 15 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/religion-ethics/64-days-of-remembering-sorokovyny-remembrance-day-and-the-poppy/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/64-days-of-remembering-sorokovyny-remembrance-day-and-the-poppy/0/) — The funeral is not the last goodbye: many families and whole countries keep special days to remember the dead again, because love does not stop when someone dies, and remembering together helps people heal. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/64-days-of-remembering-sorokovyny-remembrance-day-and-the-poppy/1/) — Picture Taras's family forty days after his grandmother died: they go to church for prayers, then share a meal at home with kutia, a dish of wheat, honey and poppy seeds; this is sorokovyny, from the Ukrainian word for forty. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/64-days-of-remembering-sorokovyny-remembrance-day-and-the-poppy/3/) — Other days of remembering: Anzac Day dawn services in Australia and New Zealand, All Souls' Day on 2 November when Catholic churches read out names, Provody in Ukraine when families bring Easter eggs to graves, and the yearly anniversary when Ellie's mum lights a candle for Granny. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/64-days-of-remembering-sorokovyny-remembrance-day-and-the-poppy/4/) — Faiths remember in different ways: Orthodox and Catholic Christians pray for the dead, other Christians remember them without praying for them in the same way, Jews light a yahrzeit candle each year, and people of every belief keep silence and work for peace. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/64-days-of-remembering-sorokovyny-remembrance-day-and-the-poppy/5/) — Sorokovyny is a Ukrainian memorial on the 40th day after a death; Orthodox and Greek Catholic Christians also hold memorial prayers on the 9th day and after a year. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/64-days-of-remembering-sorokovyny-remembrance-day-and-the-poppy/6/) — Many Orthodox Christians believe the soul is on a journey to God during the forty days after death. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/64-days-of-remembering-sorokovyny-remembrance-day-and-the-poppy/7/) — Kutia is a Ukrainian dish of wheat, honey and poppy seeds, eaten at memorials and on Christmas Eve; the wheat is a sign of new life and resurrection. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/64-days-of-remembering-sorokovyny-remembrance-day-and-the-poppy/8/) — Red poppies grew on the battlefields of the First World War; the poem «In Flanders Fields» by John McCrae helped make them a symbol of remembrance. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/64-days-of-remembering-sorokovyny-remembrance-day-and-the-poppy/9/) — The First World War ended with an armistice at 11 o'clock on 11 November 1918; many countries keep two minutes' silence at that time each year. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/64-days-of-remembering-sorokovyny-remembrance-day-and-the-poppy/10/) — War memorials list the names of local people who died in wars; sometimes several men from one family are listed. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/64-days-of-remembering-sorokovyny-remembrance-day-and-the-poppy/11/) — Anzac Day, on 25 April, remembers Australians and New Zealanders who served and died in wars; dawn services recall the landing at Gallipoli at dawn in 1915. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/64-days-of-remembering-sorokovyny-remembrance-day-and-the-poppy/12/) — The anniversary of a death can bring back strong feelings; many people light a candle or look at photos on that day. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/64-days-of-remembering-sorokovyny-remembrance-day-and-the-poppy/13/) — Jews light a yahrzeit candle on the anniversary of a death; Catholics may have a Mass said for the person. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/64-days-of-remembering-sorokovyny-remembrance-day-and-the-poppy/14/) — All Souls' Day, 2 November, is when Catholics and some Anglicans pray for the dead; Orthodox Christians keep special Saturdays of the dead. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/64-days-of-remembering-sorokovyny-remembrance-day-and-the-poppy/15/) — Provody, also called Hrobky, is a Ukrainian day soon after Easter when families visit graves, bring Easter food and eggs, and remember their dead; eggs stand for new life and Christ's resurrection. - ← previous: [Burial, cremation, the wake and the grave](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/63-burial-cremation-the-wake-and-the-grave/) - next →: [How other people remember: Día de los Muertos, Qingming and more](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/65-how-other-people-remember-dia-de-los-muertos-qingming-and-more/) - ↑ back to [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/)