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title: The collection plate gathers money given to the church, often for pe… — Giggles, skipping and the collection plate · tree and pragmatics
description: The collection plate gathers money given to the church, often for people who need help and for running the church. Who acts: collection plate, 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 th
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# Giggles, skipping and the collection plate, sentence 19

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The collection plate gathers money given to the church, often for people who need help and for running the church.

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**Who acts:** collection plate, people · **What happens:** gather, give, need, run · **To what, where:** money, church, help

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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 (collection plate, 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:19
# text = The collection plate gathers money given to the church, often for people who need help and for running the church.
# 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): no change
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	collection	collection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	plate	plate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	gathers	gather	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	often	often	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gather** | present | the collection plate | money |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | participle |  | money *not said here* | the church |  |  | for people; often *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent to church=Recipient for people=Asset |
| 3 | **need** | present | people | help |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=Theme |
| 4 | **run** | gerund | people *not said here* | the church |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme church=Trajectory |

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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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**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/).

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