--- title: Some Chinese families burn special paper money and paper houses, a s… — How other people remember: Día de los Muertos, Q… · tree and pragmatics description: Some Chinese families burn special paper money and paper houses, a sign of caring for ancestors' needs in the next life; it is not real money. Who acts: Chinese families, sign, ancestors. 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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 (Chinese families, sign, ancestors), 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:9 # text = Some Chinese families burn special paper money and paper houses, a sign of caring for ancestors' needs in the next life; it is not real money. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 3 det _ _ 2 Chinese Chinese ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 burn burn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 special special ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 paper paper NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=7:cc 9 paper paper NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 houses house NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 sign sign NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 caring caring NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 16 for for ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 ancestors ancestor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nmod:poss _ _ 18 ' 's PART POS _ 17 case _ _ 19 needs need NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=4:punct 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 27 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 29 advmod _ _ 28 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 30 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **burn** | present | some Chinese families | special paper money and paper houses and a sign of caring for ancestors's needs in the next life | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent money=Theme | | 2 | **not** **is a** | present | sign | real money | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **sign** | | | caring for ancestors's needs in the next life | | | | | nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient | | 4 | **need** | | ancestors | | | the next life | | | nom need «state transitive»: poss=agent in=place | 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:065-how-other-people-remember-dia-de-los-muertos-qingming-and-more.lesson:9`. **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 ×1, R2-punct-next ×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. 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