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description: Many Protestant and Anglican churches have women ministers and bishops, while Catholic and Orthodox churches ordain only men as priests; Christians read the Bible differently here and each side gives reasons. Who acts: Many Protestant churches, Catholic churches, Christians, side. A sentence of the 
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# Weddings, funerals and the people of the church, sentence 3

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Many Protestant and Anglican churches have women ministers and bishops, while Catholic and Orthodox churches ordain only men as priests; Christians read the Bible differently here and each side gives reasons.

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**Who acts:** Many Protestant churches, Catholic churches, Christians, side · **What happens:** have, ordain, read, give · **To what, where:** women, men, Bible, reasons

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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, Christians, side), 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:3
# text = Many Protestant and Anglican churches have women ministers and bishops, while Catholic and Orthodox churches ordain only men as priests; Christians read the Bible differently here and each side gives reasons.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×4, 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	6	obj	_	_
8	ministers	minister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	bishops	bishop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
13	Catholic	catholic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	Orthodox	orthodox	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
16	churches	church	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	ordain	ordain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
18	only	only	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	priests	priest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	Christians	Christian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
24	read	read	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	Bible	Bible	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	differently	differently	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	31	det	_	_
31	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
33	reasons	reason	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Many Protestant churches | women and ministers and bishops |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Patient |
| 2 | **ordain** | present | Catholic churches | men |  |  |  | as priests | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent man=Theme as priest=Attribute |
| 3 | **read** | past | Christians | the Bible |  | here |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bible=Topic |
| 4 | **give** | present | each side | reasons |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Theme |

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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:3`.

**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 ×4, 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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