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title: Christians and people of other faiths remember the dead with prayers… — Missing someone: memory boxes, birthdays and spe… · tree and pragmatics
description: Christians and people of other faiths remember the dead with prayers and customs on special days. Who acts: Christians. 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 pragmat
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# Missing someone: memory boxes, birthdays and special days, sentence 17

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Christians and people of other faiths remember the dead with prayers and customs on special days.

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**Who acts:** Christians · **What happens:** remember · **To what, where:** dead

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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: who acts (Christians), 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:17
# text = Christians and people of other faiths remember the dead with prayers and customs on special days.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	Christians	Christian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	faiths	faith	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	remember	remember	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	prayers	prayer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	customs	custom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remember** | present | Christians and people of other faiths | the dead |  |  | day | with prayers and customs | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent dead=Theme |

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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:068-missing-someone-memory-boxes-birthdays-and-special-days.lesson:17`.

**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): R5-strong ×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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