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title: Many Protestant and Anglican churches have women ministers and bisho… — Weddings, funerals and the people of the church · tree and pragmatics
description: Many Protestant and Anglican churches have women ministers and bishops; Catholic and Orthodox churches ordain (make into priests) only men; this is disputed. Who acts: Many Protestant churches, Catholic churches. A sentence of the lesson «Weddings, funerals and the people of the church» of the relig
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# Weddings, funerals and the people of the church, sentence 18

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Many Protestant and Anglican churches have women ministers and bishops; Catholic and Orthodox churches ordain (make into priests) only men; this is disputed.

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**Who acts:** Many Protestant churches, Catholic churches · **What happens:** have, ordain, make, dispute · **To what, where:** women ministers, men, priests, this

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Weddings, funerals and the people of the church» 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 (Many Protestant churches, Catholic churches), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:025-weddings-funerals-and-the-people-of-the-church.lesson:18
# text = Many Protestant and Anglican churches have women ministers and bishops; Catholic and Orthodox churches ordain (make into priests) only men; this is disputed.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 025-weddings-funerals-and-the-people-of-the-church.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×5, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
2	Protestant	protestant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	Anglican	anglican	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
5	churches	church	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obj
8	ministers	minister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	bishops	bishop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=6:punct
12	Catholic	catholic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	Orthodox	orthodox	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
15	churches	church	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	ordain	ordain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
17	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	18	punct	_	_
18	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:conj
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	priests	priest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
21	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	18	punct	_	_
22	only	only	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
23	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
25	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	disputed	dispute	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **have** | present | Many Protestant churches | women ministers and bishops |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent minister=Patient |
| 2 | **ordain** | present | Catholic churches | men |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | infinitive |  |  |  | priests |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent into priest=Product |
| 4 | **dispute** | present · passive |  | this |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:025-weddings-funerals-and-the-people-of-the-church.lesson:18`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×5, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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