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title: On Ash Wednesday some Christians receive a cross of ashes on their f… — The church year · tree and pragmatics
description: On Ash Wednesday some Christians receive a cross of ashes on their forehead as a sign of saying sorry to God. Who acts: Christians, sign. 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 11

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On Ash Wednesday some Christians receive a cross of ashes on their forehead as a sign of saying sorry to God.

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**Who acts:** Christians, sign · **What happens:** receive, say · **To what, where:** cross, forehead, sorry · **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, sign), 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:11
# text = On Ash Wednesday some Christians receive a cross of ashes on their forehead as a sign of saying sorry to God.
# 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Ash	Ash	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
3	Wednesday	Wednesday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:appos
4	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
5	Christians	Christian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	receive	receive	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	cross	cross	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	ashes	ash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	forehead	forehead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
17	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
18	saying	say	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	acl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:nmod
19	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:xcomp
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **receive** | present | some Christians | a cross of ashes |  | Christians's forehead | wednesday | as a sign | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent cross=Theme on forehead=Location |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | a sign *not said here* | sorry |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sorry=Topic |

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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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**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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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