--- title: For a child today this means the church is not just a building or on… — Weddings, funerals and the people of the church · tree and pragmatics description: For a child today this means the church is not just a building or one leader on Sunday, but a whole family of people serving, and that you can help too. Who acts: this, church, whole family, you. 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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 (this, church, whole family, you), 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:5 # text = For a child today this means the church is not just a building or one leader on Sunday, but a whole family of people serving, and that you can help too. # 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): no change 1 For for ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 4 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod:unmarked _ _ 5 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 6 nsubj _ _ 6 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 church church NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 10 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 11 just just ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 building building NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 ccomp _ _ 14 or or CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 16 leader leader NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 17 on on ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 Sunday Sunday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 20 but but CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nmod _ _ 26 serving serve VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 ccomp _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 29 that that SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 30 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 31 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 conj _ _ 33 too too ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | this | | | | | for a child today | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **not** **is a** | present | the church | a building or one leader on Sunday | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **serve** | gerund | a whole family of people | | | | | | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **help** | can | you | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=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:025-weddings-funerals-and-the-people-of-the-church.lesson:5`. **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): no change. **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. 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