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title: Christians do not only tell the story of Jesus once; they walk throu… — The church year · tree and pragmatics
description: Christians do not only tell the story of Jesus once; they walk through it every year, season by season, in what is called the church year. Who acts: Christians. A sentence of the lesson «The church year» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The church year, sentence 0

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Christians do not only tell the story of Jesus once; they walk through it every year, season by season, in what is called the church year.

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**Who acts:** Christians · **What happens:** not tell, walk, call · **To what, where:** story, church year · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The church year» 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 (Christians), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:026-the-church-year.lesson:0
# text = Christians do not only tell the story of Jesus once; they walk through it every year, season by season, in what is called the church year.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 026-the-church-year.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Christians	Christian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Jesus	Jesus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	5	advmod	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	walk	walk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
14	through	through	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
16	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	season	season	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	parataxis	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	season	season	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	13	obl	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl:relcl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:obl:unmarked
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## 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 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | present · do-support | Christians | the story of Jesus |  |  |  | once *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient |
| 2 | **walk** | present | Christians *= christian* |  |  | story | year |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source PP.destination PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent through it=Initial\_Location in what=Trajectory |
| 3 | **call** | present · passive |  | the church year |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V» |

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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:026-the-church-year.lesson:0`.

**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): R5-strong ×1, 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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