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description: At a Hindu funeral the body is usually cremated; traditionally the eldest son leads the rites, though today daughters sometimes do too. Who acts: eldest son, today daughters. A sentence of the lesson «How other people remember: Día de los Muertos, Qingming and more» of the religion ethics course of 
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# How other people remember: Día de los Muertos, Qingming and more, sentence 10

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At a Hindu funeral the body is usually cremated; traditionally the eldest son leads the rites, though today daughters sometimes do too.

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**Who acts:** eldest son, today daughters · **What happens:** cremate, lead, do · **To what, where:** body, Hindu funeral, rites

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This is a sentence of the lesson «How other people remember: Día de los Muertos, Qingming and more» 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 (eldest son, today daughters), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:065-how-other-people-remember-dia-de-los-muertos-qingming-and-more.lesson:10
# text = At a Hindu funeral the body is usually cremated; traditionally the eldest son leads the rites, though today daughters sometimes do too.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 065-how-other-people-remember-dia-de-los-muertos-qingming-and-more.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Hindu	hindu	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	funeral	funeral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
8	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	cremated	cremate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=9:punct
11	traditionally	traditionally	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:advmod
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	eldest	old	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	14	amod	_	_
14	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	leads	lead	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	rites	rite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
22	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	23	advmod	_	_
23	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
24	too	too	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cremate** | present · passive |  | the body |  | a Hindu funeral |  | usually *property* | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **lead** | present | the eldest son | the rites |  |  |  | traditionally *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rite=Theme |
| 3 | **do** | present | today daughters |  |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:065-how-other-people-remember-dia-de-los-muertos-qingming-and-more.lesson:10`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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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