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title: The kingdom of God is like a tiny mustard seed that grows into a lar… — Parables: the Talents, the Sower and more · tree and pragmatics
description: The kingdom of God is like a tiny mustard seed that grows into a large plant where birds nest. Who acts: kingdom, tiny mustard seed, birds. A sentence of the lesson «Parables: the Talents, the Sower and more» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Parables: the Talents, the Sower and more, sentence 11

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The kingdom of God is like a tiny mustard seed that grows into a large plant where birds nest.

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**Who acts:** kingdom, tiny mustard seed, birds · **What happens:** be, grow, nest · **To what, where:** large plant

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Parables: the Talents, the Sower and more» 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 (kingdom, tiny mustard seed, birds), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:015-parables-talents-sower-and-more.lesson:11
# text = The kingdom of God is like a tiny mustard seed that grows into a large plant where birds nest.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 015-parables-talents-sower-and-more.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	2	det	_	_
2	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	mustard	mustard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	19	advmod	_	_
18	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	nest	nest	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **is** | present | the kingdom of God |  |  |  |  | like a tiny mustard seed | tree rules |
| 2 | **grow** | present | a tiny mustard seed |  |  |  |  | into a large plant *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into plant=Result |
| 3 | **nest** | present | birds |  |  |  |  |  | vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:015-parables-talents-sower-and-more.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): 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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