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title: Many churches change the colours of their cloths with the seasons, f… — The church year · tree and pragmatics
description: Many churches change the colours of their cloths with the seasons, for example purple for Advent and Lent, white or gold for Christmas and Easter, and green for the ordinary weeks. Who acts: Many churches. A sentence of the lesson «The church year» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary sch
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# The church year, sentence 3

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Many churches change the colours of their cloths with the seasons, for example purple for Advent and Lent, white or gold for Christmas and Easter, and green for the ordinary weeks.

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**Who acts:** Many churches · **What happens:** change · **To what, where:** colours

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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 churches), 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:3
# text = Many churches change the colours of their cloths with the seasons, for example purple for Advent and Lent, white or gold for Christmas and Easter, and green for the ordinary weeks.
# 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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	churches	church	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	change	change	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	cloths	cloth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	seasons	season	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	purple	purple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	advcl	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Advent	advent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	Lent	Lent	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	gold	gold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	Easter	Easter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	_
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **change** | present | Many churches | the colours of churches's cloths |  |  | season |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Patient |

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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 ×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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