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title: Churches differ on same-sex marriage and on remarriage after divorce… — Weddings, funerals and the people of the church · tree and pragmatics
description: Churches differ on same-sex marriage and on remarriage after divorce; these are disputed questions. Who acts: Churches, these. A sentence of the lesson «Weddings, funerals and the people of the church» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Weddings, funerals and the people of the church, sentence 8

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Churches differ on same-sex marriage and on remarriage after divorce; these are disputed questions.

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**Who acts:** Churches, these · **What happens:** differ, dispute, be · **To what, where:** disputed questions

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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 (Churches, these), 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:8
# text = Churches differ on same-sex marriage and on remarriage after divorce; these are disputed questions.
# 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Churches	church	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	differ	differ	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	_
6	sex	sex	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	remarriage	remarriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
11	after	after	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	divorce	divorce	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	17	nsubj	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	disputed	dispute	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
17	questions	question	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **differ** | present | Churches |  |  |  |  | on sex marriage and remarriage after divorce | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent on marriage=Topic |
| 2 | **dispute** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | these | disputed questions |  |  |  |  | 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:8`.

**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, 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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