--- title: Writing or talking about someone who has died keeps their memory ali… — Missing someone: memory boxes, birthdays and spe… · tree and pragmatics description: Writing or talking about someone who has died keeps their memory alive. A sentence of the lesson «Missing someone: memory boxes, birthdays and special days» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/68-missing-someone-memory-boxes-birthdays-and-special-days/13/) [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/) / [Missing someone: memory boxes, birthda…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/68-missing-someone-memory-boxes-birthdays-and-special-days/) / 13 # Missing someone: memory boxes, birthdays and special days, sentence 13 Writing or talking about someone who has died keeps their memory alive. **What happens:** write, talk, die, keep · **To what, where:** memory This is a sentence of the lesson «Missing someone: memory boxes, birthdays and special days» 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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:068-missing-someone-memory-boxes-birthdays-and-special-days.lesson:13 # text = Writing or talking about someone who has died keeps their memory alive. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 068-missing-someone-memory-boxes-birthdays-and-special-days.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): no change 1 Writing write VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 nsubj _ _ 2 or or CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 talking talk VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 conj _ _ 4 about about ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 3 obl _ _ 6 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ _ 7 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 died die VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 5 acl:relcl _ _ 9 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 memory memory NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 alive alive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 xcomp _ _ 13 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **write** | gerund | | | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **talk** | gerund | | | | | | about someone | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about someone=Topic | | 3 | **die** | present · perfect | | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 4 | **keep** | present | | Anniversaries's memory | | | | alive *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent memory=Theme | 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:068-missing-someone-memory-boxes-birthdays-and-special-days.lesson:13`. **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): no change. **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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