--- title: Some families set an empty chair or light a candle at a festival to… — Missing someone: memory boxes, birthdays and spe… · tree and pragmatics description: Some families set an empty chair or light a candle at a festival to remember the person. Who acts: families. 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 ever --- [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/9/) [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/) / 9 # Missing someone: memory boxes, birthdays and special days, sentence 9 Some families set an empty chair or light a candle at a festival to remember the person. **Who acts:** families · **What happens:** set, light, remember · **To what, where:** empty chair, candle, festival, person 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 (families), 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:9 # text = Some families set an empty chair or light a candle at a festival to remember the person. # 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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 set set VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 empty empty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 chair chair NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 or or CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 light light VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 candle candle NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 at at ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 festival festival NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:obl 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 remember remember VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:advcl 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 . . 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 | **set** | past | some families | a empty chair | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient chair=Result | | 2 | **light** | present | some families *not said here* | a candle | | a festival | | | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent candle=Product | | 3 | **remember** | to-infinitive | some families *not said here* | the person | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent person=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: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): R5-strong ×2, 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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