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title: Baptism is a sign of washing away sin, starting a new life and joini… — Baptism, communion and confirmation · tree and pragmatics
description: Baptism is a sign of washing away sin, starting a new life and joining the Church. Who acts: Baptism. 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 9

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Baptism is a sign of washing away sin, starting a new life and joining the Church.

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**Who acts:** Baptism · **What happens:** be, wash away, start, join · **To what, where:** sign, sin, new life, Church

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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 (Baptism), 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:9
# text = Baptism is a sign of washing away sin, starting a new life and joining the Church.
# 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
1	Baptism	baptism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
6	washing	wash	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	nmod	_	_
7	away	away	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	sin	sin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	starting	start	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	conj	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	joining	join	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Church	Church	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	.	.	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 | **is a** | present | Baptism | a sign |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **wash away** | gerund |  | sin |  |  |  | away *property* | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sin=Patient |
| 3 | **start** | gerund |  | a new life |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Eventuality |
| 4 | **join** | gerund |  | the Church |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent church=Patient |

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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. **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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