--- title: Catholic children often make their First Communion at about seven or… — Baptism, communion and confirmation · tree and pragmatics description: Catholic children often make their First Communion at about seven or eight, and in confirmation young people or adults make the baptism promises their own, often with a bishop laying hands on them. Who acts: Catholic children, young people, bishop. 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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 (Catholic children, young people, 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:4 # text = Catholic children often make their First Communion at about seven or eight, and in confirmation young people or adults make the baptism promises their own, 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Catholic catholic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 often often ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 6 First first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 7 amod _ _ 7 Communion communion PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 8 at at ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 about about ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 obl _ _ 11 or or CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 eight eight NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 conj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 confirmation confirmation NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:compound 17 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 19 or or CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 adults adult NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ _ 21 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 baptism baptism NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 promises promise NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 25 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 28 often often ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 29 with with SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 bishop bishop NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 32 laying lay VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 33 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obj _ _ 34 on on ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | present | Catholic children | children's First Communion | | seven | | often *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent communion=Product | | 2 | **make** | present | young people or adults | confirmation | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Product | | 3 | **lay** | gerund | a bishop | hands | | | | on people; often *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme on they=Destination | 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. 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