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title: For a child today the church year is a calendar that teaches: waitin… — The church year · tree and pragmatics
description: For a child today the church year is a calendar that teaches: waiting, giving, saying sorry, thanking God at harvest and learning from saints all come round again each year. Who acts: church year, calendar. A sentence of the lesson «The church year» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary sc
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# The church year, sentence 4

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For a child today the church year is a calendar that teaches: waiting, giving, saying sorry, thanking God at harvest and learning from saints all come round again each year.

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**Who acts:** church year, calendar · **What happens:** be, teach, wait, give, say, thank · **To what, where:** calendar, God, harvest, saints · **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 (church year, calendar), 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:4
# text = For a child today the church year is a calendar that teaches: waiting, giving, saying sorry, thanking God at harvest and learning from saints all come round again each year.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
4	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod:unmarked	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	calendar	calendar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	teaches	teach	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
14	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	30	nsubj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	giving	give	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:advcl
19	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:discourse|HaikuPos=INTJ:UH:_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	thanking	thank	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	conj	_	_
22	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	harvest	harvest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	learning	learn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	conj	_	_
27	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	saints	saint	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
29	all	all	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
31	round	round	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:advmod
32	again	again	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
33	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	34	det	_	_
34	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl:unmarked	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | the church year | a calendar |  |  |  | for a child  today | tree rules |
| 2 | **teach** *speech: other* | present | a calendar |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **wait** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **give** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **say** *speech: apologize* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | sorry *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **thank** *speech: thank* | gerund |  |  | God | harvest |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent god=Theme |
| 7 | **learn** | gerund |  |  |  | saints |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from saint=Source |
| 8 | **come round** | present |  |  |  |  | again; year | all, round *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:4`.

**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, 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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