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title: In Lent many Christians give something up or take something good on. — The church year · tree and pragmatics
description: In Lent many Christians give something up or take something good on. Who acts: many 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# The church year, sentence 12

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In Lent many Christians give something up or take something good on.

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**Who acts:** many Christians · **What happens:** give up, take on · **To what, where:** something, Lent

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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 (many 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:12
# text = In Lent many Christians give something up or take something good on.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Lent	Lent	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
3	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Christians	Christian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	5	obj	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=5:cc
9	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
10	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	9	obj	_	_
11	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **give up** | present | many Christians | something |  | Lent |  |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Source |
| 2 | **take on** | infinitive | many Christians *not said here* | something |  |  |  |  | vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme |

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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:12`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×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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