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title: Tithing teaches that giving can be planned, not only done now and th… — Sunday school, youth groups and charity · tree and pragmatics
description: Tithing teaches that giving can be planned, not only done now and then. Who acts: Tithing. 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 16

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Tithing teaches that giving can be planned, not only done now and then.

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**Who acts:** Tithing · **What happens:** teach, give, plan, not do · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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), 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:16
# text = Tithing teaches that giving can be planned, not only done now and then.
# 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	2	nsubj	_	_
2	teaches	teach	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	planned	plan	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	ccomp	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
10	only	only	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
12	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	conj	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **teach** *speech: other* | present | Tithing |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **give** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **plan** | can · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 4 | **not** **do** | participle |  |  |  |  | now |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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:16`.

**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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