--- title: When Jesus was twelve he stayed behind in the Temple in Jerusalem as… — The birth of Jesus · tree and pragmatics description: When Jesus was twelve he stayed behind in the Temple in Jerusalem asking and answering questions, and his parents searched for him for three days. Who acts: Jesus, parents. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jesus, parents), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:012-the-birth-of-jesus.lesson:16 # text = When Jesus was twelve he stayed behind in the Temple in Jerusalem asking and answering questions, and his parents searched for him for three days. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 012-the-birth-of-jesus.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 4 mark _ _ 2 Jesus Jesus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 twelve twelve NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 advcl _ _ 5 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 stayed stay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 behind behind ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 Temple Temple PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 Jerusalem Jerusalem PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 13 asking ask VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:xcomp 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 answering answer VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 conj _ _ 16 questions question NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 21 searched search VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:parataxis 22 for for ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obl _ _ 24 for for ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 26 nummod _ _ 26 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | Jesus | twelve | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **stay** | past | Jesus | | | the Temple in Jerusalem | | behind *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in temple=Location | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | Jesus *not said here* | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **answer** *speech: assert* | gerund | Jesus *not said here* | questions | | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent question=Eventuality | | 5 | **search** | past | Jesus's parents | | | | day | for Jesus | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for he=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:012-the-birth-of-jesus.lesson:16`. **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 ×1, 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/). - ← previous: [The birth of Jesus, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/12-the-birth-of-jesus/15/) - next →: [The birth of Jesus, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/12-the-birth-of-jesus/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/12-the-birth-of-jesus/)