--- title: Many churches baptise babies, with parents and godparents making pro… — Baptism, communion and confirmation · tree and pragmatics description: Many churches baptise babies, with parents and godparents making promises, because God's love comes before we understand it; Baptists and many Pentecostals baptise only people old enough to choose, usually by full immersion; both sides give serious reasons. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Many churches, parents, love, we), 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:2 # text = Many churches baptise babies, with parents and godparents making promises, because God's love comes before we understand it; Baptists and many Pentecostals baptise only people old enough to choose, usually by full immersion; both sides give serious reasons. # 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 ×3, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 churches church NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 baptise baptise VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 babies baby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 6 with with SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 7 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 godparents godparent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ 10 making make VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 11 promises promise NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 13 because because SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 14 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nmod:poss _ _ 15 's 's PART POS _ 14 case _ _ 16 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 18 before before SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 19 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 understand understand VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:ccomp 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 23 Baptists baptist PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=27:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 Pentecostals pentecostal PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 23 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 27 baptise baptise VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 28 only only ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 30 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 31 enough enough ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 choose choose VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 advcl _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 35 usually usually ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 36 by by ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 immersion immersion NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 39 ; ; PUNCT : _ 42 punct _ _ 40 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 41 det _ _ 41 sides side NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 nsubj _ _ 42 give give VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 parataxis _ _ 43 serious serious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 reasons reason NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 obj _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | Many churches | babies | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **make** | gerund | parents and godparents | promises | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Product | | 3 | **come** | present | God's love | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **understand** | present | we | Church | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | | 5 | **baptise** | present | Baptists and many Pentecostals | people | | | | by full immersion | tree rules | | 6 | **choose** | to-infinitive | Baptists and many Pentecostals *not said here* | | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **give** | present | both sides | serious reasons | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Theme | | 8 | **love** | | God | | | | | | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | 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:2`. **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 ×3, R8-pos-agree ×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/). - ← previous: [Baptism, communion and confirmation, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/24-baptism-communion-and-confirmation/1/) - next →: [Baptism, communion and confirmation, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/24-baptism-communion-and-confirmation/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/24-baptism-communion-and-confirmation/)