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title: It begins with Advent, four weeks of getting ready, then Christmas f… — The church year · tree and pragmatics
description: It begins with Advent, four weeks of getting ready, then Christmas for Jesus' birth and Epiphany for the wise men who came from far away. Who acts: story, four weeks, wise men. A sentence of the lesson «The church year» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree 
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# The church year, sentence 1

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It begins with Advent, four weeks of getting ready, then Christmas for Jesus' birth and Epiphany for the wise men who came from far away.

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**Who acts:** story, four weeks, wise men · **What happens:** begin, get, come

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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 (story, four weeks, wise men), 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:1
# text = It begins with Advent, four weeks of getting ready, then Christmas for Jesus' birth and Epiphany for the wise men who came from far away.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	begins	begin	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Advent	Advent	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
8	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	getting	get	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
10	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct
12	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
13	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	Jesus	Jesus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	'	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	Epiphany	epiphany	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	28	advmod	_	_
28	away	away	ADV	RB	_	25	obl	_	_
29	.	.	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 | **begin** | present | story |  |  |  |  | with Advent and four weeks and Christmas for Jesus's birth for the wise men and Epiphany | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with advent=Subeventuality |
| 2 | **get** | gerund | four weeks *not said here* |  |  |  |  | ready *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **come** | past | the wise men |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from away=Initial\_Location |

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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:1`.

**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): R6-punct-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.

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