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title: Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican, Methodist and Presbyterian churches ba… — Baptism, communion and confirmation · tree and pragmatics
description: Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican, Methodist and Presbyterian churches baptise babies. Who acts: Catholic churches. A sentence of the lesson «Baptism, communion and confirmation» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Baptism, communion and confirmation, sentence 10

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Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican, Methodist and Presbyterian churches baptise babies.

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**Who acts:** Catholic churches · **What happens:** baptise · **To what, where:** babies

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Baptism, communion and confirmation» 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 (Catholic churches), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:024-baptism-communion-and-confirmation.lesson:10
# text = Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican, Methodist and Presbyterian churches baptise babies.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 024-baptism-communion-and-confirmation.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 ×1
1	Catholic	catholic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	Orthodox	Orthodox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Anglican	Anglican	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	Methodist	Methodist	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	Presbyterian	Presbyterian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
10	churches	church	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	baptise	baptise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **baptise** | present | Catholic churches | babies |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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): R7-rel-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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