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title: A memory box is a special place to keep things that remind you of so… — Missing someone: memory boxes, birthdays and spe… · tree and pragmatics
description: A memory box is a special place to keep things that remind you of someone who has died. Who acts: memory box, things. 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 pragmatic
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# Missing someone: memory boxes, birthdays and special days, sentence 6

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A memory box is a special place to keep things that remind you of someone who has died.

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**Who acts:** memory box, things · **What happens:** be, keep, remind, die · **To what, where:** special place, things, you

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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 (memory box, things), 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:6
# text = A memory box is a special place to keep things that remind you of someone who has died.
# 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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	memory	memory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl	_	_
10	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	remind	remind	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	iobj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	12	obl	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
17	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	died	die	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a memory box | a special place |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **keep** | to-infinitive |  | things |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme |
| 3 | **remind** *speech: other* | present | things |  | you |  |  | of someone | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent you=Recipient of someone=Topic |
| 4 | **die** | present · perfect |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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:6`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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