--- title: Church is a place where people pray, listen and keep quiet together. — Giggles, skipping and the collection plate · tree and pragmatics description: Church is a place where people pray, listen and keep quiet together. Who acts: Church, people. A sentence of the lesson «Giggles, skipping and the collection plate» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/364-giggles-sunday-school-and-the-collection-plate/11/) [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/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Giggles, skipping and the collection p…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/364-giggles-sunday-school-and-the-collection-plate/) / 11 # Giggles, skipping and the collection plate, sentence 11 Church is a place where people pray, listen and keep quiet together. **Who acts:** Church, people · **What happens:** be, pray, listen, keep · **To what, where:** place This is a sentence of the lesson «Giggles, skipping and the collection plate» of the everyday 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 (Church, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:364-giggles-sunday-school-and-the-collection-plate.lesson:11 # text = Church is a place where people pray, listen and keep quiet together. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 364-giggles-sunday-school-and-the-collection-plate.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): R3-conj-first ×1 1 Church church NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 7 advmod _ _ 6 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 7 pray pray VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 listen listen VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=9:conj 12 quiet quiet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 xcomp _ _ 13 together together ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 14 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | Church | a place | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **pray** | present | people | | | | | | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 3 | **listen** | present | people *not said here* | | | | | | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **keep** | present | people *not said here* | | | | | quiet, together *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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:everyday:364-giggles-sunday-school-and-the-collection-plate.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): R3-conj-first ×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/). - ← previous: [Giggles, skipping and the collection p…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/364-giggles-sunday-school-and-the-collection-plate/10/) - next →: [Giggles, skipping and the collection p…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/364-giggles-sunday-school-and-the-collection-plate/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/364-giggles-sunday-school-and-the-collection-plate/)