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title: Music can bring back strong memories; tears during a song do not alw… — Kindness to the dying and visiting the old · tree and pragmatics
description: Music can bring back strong memories; tears during a song do not always mean sadness. Who acts: Music, tears. A sentence of the lesson «Kindness to the dying and visiting the old» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kindness to the dying and visiting the old, sentence 11

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Music can bring back strong memories; tears during a song do not always mean sadness.

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**Who acts:** Music, tears · **What happens:** bring back, not mean · **To what, where:** strong memories, sadness

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Kindness to the dying and visiting the old» 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 (Music, tears), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:077-kindness-to-the-dying-and-visiting-the-old.lesson:11
# text = Music can bring back strong memories; tears during a song do not always mean sadness.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 077-kindness-to-the-dying-and-visiting-the-old.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	back	back	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	memories	memory	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
9	during	during	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
14	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	15	advmod	_	_
15	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
16	sadness	sadness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring back** | can | Music | strong memories |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent memory=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **mean** | present · do-support | tears during a song | sadness |  |  |  | always *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sadness=Topic |

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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:077-kindness-to-the-dying-and-visiting-the-old.lesson:11`.

**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): R7-rel-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.

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

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