--- title: A christening is a church ceremony where a baby is welcomed into the… — A new baby in the house · tree and pragmatics description: A christening is a church ceremony where a baby is welcomed into the Christian church and given its names, with water on its head. Who acts: christening. A sentence of the lesson «A new baby in the house» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/19-a-new-baby-in-the-house/10/) [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/) / [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/) / [A new baby in the house](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/19-a-new-baby-in-the-house/) / 10 # A new baby in the house, sentence 10 A christening is a church ceremony where a baby is welcomed into the Christian church and given its names, with water on its head. **Who acts:** christening · **What happens:** be, welcome, give, name · **To what, where:** church ceremony, baby, Christian church, names This is a sentence of the lesson «A new baby in the house» of the adult life 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 (christening), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:019-a-new-baby-in-the-house.lesson:10 # text = A christening is a church ceremony where a baby is welcomed into the Christian church and given its names, with water on its head. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 019-a-new-baby-in-the-house.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 2 det _ _ 2 christening christening NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 church church NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 ceremony ceremony NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 11 advmod _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj:pass _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux:pass _ _ 11 welcomed welcome VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 acl:relcl _ _ 12 into into ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 Christian Christian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 church church NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 conj _ _ 18 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 names name NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 with with ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 23 on on ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a christening | a church ceremony | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **welcome** | present · passive | | a baby | | the Christian church | | | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 3 | **give** | participle | | christening's names | | | | with water on christening's head | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme | | 4 | **name** | | christening | | | | | with water on christening's head | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent with=obl | 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:adult-life:019-a-new-baby-in-the-house.lesson:10`. **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/). - ← previous: [A new baby in the house, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/19-a-new-baby-in-the-house/9/) - next →: [A new baby in the house, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/19-a-new-baby-in-the-house/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/19-a-new-baby-in-the-house/)