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title: The altar or communion table is where the bread and wine are prepare… — Sunday service, hymns and the Lord's Prayer · tree and pragmatics
description: The altar or communion table is where the bread and wine are prepared for communion. Who acts: altar table. A sentence of the lesson «Sunday service, hymns and the Lord's Prayer» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Sunday service, hymns and the Lord's Prayer, sentence 18

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The altar or communion table is where the bread and wine are prepared for communion.

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**Who acts:** altar table · **What happens:** be, prepare · **To what, where:** bread

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Sunday service, hymns and the Lord's Prayer» 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 (altar table), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:023-sunday-service-hymns-and-the-lords-prayer.lesson:18
# text = The altar or communion table is where the bread and wine are prepared for communion.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 023-sunday-service-hymns-and-the-lords-prayer.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	5	det	_	_
2	altar	altar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
3	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	communion	communion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	13	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	prepared	prepare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	ccomp	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	communion	communion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | **be** | present | the altar table |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **prepare** | present · passive |  | the bread and wine |  |  |  | for communion | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Product for communion=Beneficiary |

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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:023-sunday-service-hymns-and-the-lords-prayer.lesson:18`.

**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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