--- title: Pictures like a shamrock (a little clover with three leaves on one s… — What Christians believe: God, Jesus and the Holy… · tree and pragmatics description: Pictures like a shamrock (a little clover with three leaves on one stem), or water as ice, liquid and steam, help explain the Trinity, but every picture falls short. Who acts: Pictures, picture. 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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 (Pictures, picture), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:021-god-jesus-and-the-holy-spirit.lesson:9 # text = Pictures like a shamrock (a little clover with three leaves on one stem), or water as ice, liquid and steam, help explain the Trinity, but every picture falls short. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 021-god-jesus-and-the-holy-spirit.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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Pictures picture NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 2 like like ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 shamrock shamrock NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 5 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 8 punct _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 clover clover NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 appos _ _ 9 with with ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 12 on on ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 stem stem NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nmod 15 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 8 punct _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 or or CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 19 as as ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 liquid liquid NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:appos 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 steam steam NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 help help VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 27 explain explain VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 xcomp _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 Trinity trinity PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=27:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 but but CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 32 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 33 det _ _ 33 picture picture NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 34 falls fall VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 35 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 xcomp _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 26 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **help** | present | Pictures like a shamrock or water as ice and liquid and steam | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **explain** *speech: assert* | infinitive | Pictures like a shamrock or water as ice and liquid and steam *not said here* | the Trinity | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trinity=Topic | | 3 | **fall** | present | every picture | | | | | short *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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:021-god-jesus-and-the-holy-spirit.lesson:9`. **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 ×2, R8-pos-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. 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