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title: The building helps too: the font for baptism, the pulpit for preachi… — Sunday service, hymns and the Lord's Prayer · tree and pragmatics
description: The building helps too: the font for baptism, the pulpit for preaching, the lectern for reading, the altar or communion table, the pews, and often stained glass that tells Bible stories in pictures. Who acts: building, stained glass. A sentence of the lesson «Sunday service, hymns and the Lord's Pra
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# Sunday service, hymns and the Lord's Prayer, sentence 4

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The building helps too: the font for baptism, the pulpit for preaching, the lectern for reading, the altar or communion table, the pews, and often stained glass that tells Bible stories in pictures.

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**Who acts:** building, stained glass · **What happens:** help, preach, stain, tell · **To what, where:** stained glass, Bible stories, pictures · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (building, stained glass), 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:4
# text = The building helps too: the font for baptism, the pulpit for preaching, the lectern for reading, the altar or communion table, the pews, and often stained glass that tells Bible stories in pictures.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	building	building	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	font	font	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	baptism	baptism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	pulpit	pulpit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	preaching	preach	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	nmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	lectern	lectern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=12:conj
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	reading	reading	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	altar	altar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
23	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	communion	communion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	pews	pew	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	often	often	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	stained	stain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	amod	_	_
33	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
34	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj	_	_
35	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	acl:relcl	_	_
36	Bible	Bible	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obj	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	pictures	picture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **help** | present | the building | stained glass |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glass=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **preach** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **stain** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | often *property* | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | stained glass | Bible stories |  | pictures |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient |

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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): R3-conj-first ×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/).

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