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title: In confirmation a person confirms for themselves the promises made a… — Baptism, communion and confirmation · tree and pragmatics
description: In confirmation a person confirms for themselves the promises made at their baptism, often with a bishop laying hands on them. Who acts: person, bishop. A sentence of the lesson «Baptism, communion and confirmation» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and 
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# Baptism, communion and confirmation, sentence 19

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In confirmation a person confirms for themselves the promises made at their baptism, often with a bishop laying hands on them.

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**Who acts:** person, bishop · **What happens:** confirm, make, lay · **To what, where:** promises, confirmation, baptism, hands

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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 (person, bishop), 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:19
# text = In confirmation a person confirms for themselves the promises made at their baptism, often with a bishop laying hands on them.
# 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 ×2
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	confirmation	confirmation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:det
4	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	confirms	confirm	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	obl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	promises	promise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
10	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	baptism	baptism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
15	often	often	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	bishop	bishop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
19	laying	lay	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	_
20	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **confirm** | present | a person | the promises |  | confirmation |  | for children *= child*; with a bishop; often *property* | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot promise=Topic |
| 2 | **make** | participle |  | the promises *not said here* |  | children's baptism |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **lay** | gerund | a bishop *not said here* | hands |  |  |  | on children *= child* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme on they=Destination |

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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:024-baptism-communion-and-confirmation.lesson:19`.

**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 ×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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