--- title: Whether to baptise babies or only believers is a disputed question a… — Baptism, communion and confirmation · tree and pragmatics description: Whether to baptise babies or only believers is a disputed question among Christians. 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. --- [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/13/) [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/) / 13 # Baptism, communion and confirmation, sentence 13 Whether to baptise babies or only believers is a disputed question among Christians. **What happens:** baptise, dispute, be · **To what, where:** babies, disputed question · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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: 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:13 # text = Whether to baptise babies or only believers is a disputed question among Christians. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Whether whether SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 to to PART TO _ 3 mark _ _ 3 baptise baptise VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 csubj _ _ 4 babies baby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 or or CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=4:cc 6 only only ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 7 believers believer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 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 disputed dispute VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 11 question question NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 12 among among ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 Christians Christian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 11 nmod _ _ 14 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **baptise** | to-infinitive | | babies or believers | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **dispute** | participle | | | | | | | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **be** *speech: other* | present | | a disputed question | | | | among Christians | tree rules | 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:13`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Baptism, communion and confirmation, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/24-baptism-communion-and-confirmation/12/) - next →: [Baptism, communion and confirmation, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/24-baptism-communion-and-confirmation/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/24-baptism-communion-and-confirmation/)