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title: Lent is forty days before Easter remembering Jesus' forty days in th… — The church year · tree and pragmatics
description: Lent is forty days before Easter remembering Jesus' forty days in the desert; it begins on Ash Wednesday. Who acts: Lent, forty days, desert. A sentence of the lesson «The church year» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The church year, sentence 10

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Lent is forty days before Easter remembering Jesus' forty days in the desert; it begins on Ash Wednesday.

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**Who acts:** Lent, forty days, desert · **What happens:** be, remember, begin · **To what, where:** forty days

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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 (Lent, forty days, desert), 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:10
# text = Lent is forty days before Easter remembering Jesus' forty days in the desert; it begins on Ash Wednesday.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Lent	Lent	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
4	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	before	before	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Easter	Easter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	remembering	remember	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
8	Jesus	Jesus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	_
9	'	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
11	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	desert	desert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	begins	begin	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	Ash	Ash	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Wednesday	Wednesday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Lent | forty days |  |  | before Easter |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **remember** | gerund | forty days *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **begin** | present | desert |  |  |  | wednesday |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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:10`.

**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 ×2. **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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