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title: We can learn about a friend's customs with respect, ask what helps,… — How other people remember: Día de los Muertos, Q… · tree and pragmatics
description: We can learn about a friend's customs with respect, ask what helps, and never laugh at them; our own family may do things differently, and that is fine. Who acts: We, own family, that. A sentence of the lesson «How other people remember: Día de los Muertos, Qingming and more» of the religion ethics 
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# How other people remember: Día de los Muertos, Qingming and more, sentence 3

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We can learn about a friend's customs with respect, ask what helps, and never laugh at them; our own family may do things differently, and that is fine.

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**Who acts:** We, own family, that · **What happens:** learn, ask, help, not laugh, do, be · **To what, where:** things · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (We, own family, that), 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:3
# text = We can learn about a friend's customs with respect, ask what helps, and never laugh at them; our own family may do things differently, and that is fine.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	about	about	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	customs	custom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	respect	respect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
13	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	14	nsubj	_	_
14	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	laugh	laugh	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
27	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
28	differently	differently	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	33	nsubj	_	_
32	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
33	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=26:conj
34	.	.	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 | **learn** | can | We |  |  |  |  | about a friend's customs; with respect | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about custom=Topic |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | We *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **help** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **laugh** | infinitive | We *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at customs *= custom* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **do** | may | our own family | things |  |  |  | differently *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |
| 6 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | fine *property* | tree rules |

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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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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.

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