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title: Tithing is the old practice of giving a tenth of one's income to God… — Sunday school, youth groups and charity · tree and pragmatics
description: Tithing is the old practice of giving a tenth of one's income to God's work. Who acts: Tithing, old practice, God. A sentence of the lesson «Sunday school, youth groups and charity» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Sunday school, youth groups and charity, sentence 15

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Tithing is the old practice of giving a tenth of one's income to God's work.

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**Who acts:** Tithing, old practice, God · **What happens:** be, give, work · **To what, where:** old practice, tenth, work

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Sunday school, youth groups and charity» 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 (Tithing, old practice, God), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:027-sunday-school-youth-groups-and-charity.lesson:15
# text = Tithing is the old practice of giving a tenth of one's income to God's work.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 027-sunday-school-youth-groups-and-charity.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): no change
1	Tithing	tithing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	practice	practice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	giving	give	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	tenth	tenth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	income	income	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Tithing | the old practice |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | gerund | the old practice *not said here* | a tenth of one's income | God's work |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent tenth=Theme to work=Recipient |
| 3 | **work** |  | God |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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:027-sunday-school-youth-groups-and-charity.lesson:15`.

**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): no change. **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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