--- title: Many families mark a loved one's birthday by doing something that pe… — Missing someone: memory boxes, birthdays and spe… · tree and pragmatics description: Many families mark a loved one's birthday by doing something that person loved, like eating their favourite cake. Who acts: Many families, birthday, person. A sentence of the lesson «Missing someone: memory boxes, birthdays and special days» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school wit --- [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/7/) [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/) / 7 # Missing someone: memory boxes, birthdays and special days, sentence 7 Many families mark a loved one's birthday by doing something that person loved, like eating their favourite cake. **Who acts:** Many families, birthday, person · **What happens:** mark, love, do, eat · **To what, where:** birthday, something, favourite cake 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 (Many families, birthday, person), 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:7 # text = Many families mark a loved one's birthday by doing something that person loved, like eating their favourite cake. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 mark mark VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:det 5 loved love VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 amod _ _ 6 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ _ 7 's 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 birthday birthday NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 9 by by SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 10 doing do VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 acl _ _ 11 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 10 obj _ _ 12 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 14 obj _ _ 13 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 loved love VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 like like SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 17 eating eat VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 advcl _ _ 18 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 19 favourite favourite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 cake cake NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mark** | present | Many families | a loved one's birthday | | | | | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent birthday=Destination | | 2 | **love** | participle | | | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **do** | gerund | a loved one's birthday *not said here* | something | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality | | 4 | **love** | past | person | | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | | 5 | **eat** | gerund | person *not said here* | families's favourite cake | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Patient | 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:7`. **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, 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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