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title: For a child today, a service is a weekly practice of thanking, liste… — Sunday service, hymns and the Lord's Prayer · tree and pragmatics
description: For a child today, a service is a weekly practice of thanking, listening, saying sorry, giving and going back out to live it. Who acts: service. 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 
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# Sunday service, hymns and the Lord's Prayer, sentence 5

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For a child today, a service is a weekly practice of thanking, listening, saying sorry, giving and going back out to live it.

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**Who acts:** service · **What happens:** be, thank, listen, say, give, go back · **To what, where:** weekly practice, sorry, service · **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 (service), 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:5
# text = For a child today, a service is a weekly practice of thanking, listening, saying sorry, giving and going back out to live it.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
4	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod:unmarked	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	weekly	weekly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	practice	practice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
13	thanking	thank	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	listening	listen	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	saying	say	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	conj	_	_
18	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	obj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	giving	give	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	conj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	conj	_	_
23	back	back	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	out	out	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:xcomp
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 a** | present | a service | a weekly practice |  |  |  | for a child  today | tree rules |
| 2 | **thank** *speech: thank* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **listen** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund |  | sorry |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sorry=Topic |
| 5 | **give** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **go back** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **live** | to-infinitive |  | service |  |  |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme it=Location |

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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:5`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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