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title: Catholic children often receive First Communion at about seven or ei… — Baptism, communion and confirmation · tree and pragmatics
description: Catholic children often receive First Communion at about seven or eight. Who acts: Catholic children. 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 18

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Catholic children often receive First Communion at about seven or eight.

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**Who acts:** Catholic children · **What happens:** receive · **To what, where:** First Communion, seven

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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 children), 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:18
# text = Catholic children often receive First Communion at about seven or eight.
# 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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Catholic	catholic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
2	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	often	often	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	receive	receive	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	First	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	amod	_	_
6	Communion	communion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	about	about	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	conj	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **receive** | present | Catholic children | First Communion |  | seven |  | often *property* | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent communion=Theme at seven=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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**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, 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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