--- title: Volunteering means giving time freely, for example visiting lonely p… — Sunday school, youth groups and charity · tree and pragmatics description: Volunteering means giving time freely, for example visiting lonely people or cleaning up the area. Who acts: Volunteering. 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 cl --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/27-sunday-school-youth-groups-and-charity/17/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/) / [Sunday school, youth groups and charity](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/27-sunday-school-youth-groups-and-charity/) / 17 # Sunday school, youth groups and charity, sentence 17 Volunteering means giving time freely, for example visiting lonely people or cleaning up the area. **Who acts:** Volunteering · **What happens:** mean, give, visit, clean up · **To what, where:** lonely people, area 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 (Volunteering), 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:17 # text = Volunteering means giving time freely, for example visiting lonely people or cleaning up the area. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Volunteering volunteer NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger 2 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 giving give VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 xcomp _ _ 4 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 freely freely ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 example example NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:obl 9 visiting visit VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 10 lonely lonely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 12 or or CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 cleaning clean VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 conj _ _ 14 up up ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 area area NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 17 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | Volunteering | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **give** *not said to happen* | gerund | Volunteering *not said here* | | | | time | freely *property* | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **visit** | gerund | Volunteering *not said here* | lonely people | | | | for example | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Co-Agent | | 4 | **clean up** | gerund | Volunteering *not said here* | the area | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent area=Patient | 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. **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:17`. **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 ×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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