--- title: Baptists and many Pentecostal churches baptise people old enough to… — Baptism, communion and confirmation · tree and pragmatics description: Baptists and many Pentecostal churches baptise people old enough to decide, usually by full immersion, which means going right under the water. Who acts: Baptists, full immersion. A sentence of the lesson «Baptism, communion and confirmation» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school wi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/24-baptism-communion-and-confirmation/12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/) / [Baptism, communion and confirmation](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/24-baptism-communion-and-confirmation/) / 12 # Baptism, communion and confirmation, sentence 12 Baptists and many Pentecostal churches baptise people old enough to decide, usually by full immersion, which means going right under the water. **Who acts:** Baptists, full immersion · **What happens:** baptise, decide, mean, go · **To what, where:** people, water 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 (Baptists, full immersion), 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:12 # text = Baptists and many Pentecostal churches baptise people old enough to decide, usually by full immersion, which means going right under the water. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Baptists baptist PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 3 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 4 Pentecostal pentecostal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 churches church NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 6 baptise baptise VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 8 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 9 enough enough ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 decide decide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:acl 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 usually usually ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 14 by by ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 immersion immersion NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 19 nsubj _ _ 19 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 20 going go VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 19 xcomp _ _ 21 right right ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 22 under under ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **baptise** | present | Baptists and many Pentecostal churches | people | | | | by full immersion | tree rules | | 2 | **decide** | to-infinitive | Baptists and many Pentecostal churches *not said here* | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **mean** | present | full immersion | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **go** *not said to happen* | gerund | full immersion *not said here* | | | the water | | | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme under water=Location | 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:024-baptism-communion-and-confirmation.lesson:12`. **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 ×1, 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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