--- title: For a child today it can be small and real: bringing a tin to the fo… — Sunday school, youth groups and charity · tree and pragmatics description: For a child today it can be small and real: bringing a tin to the food bank, planning to give part of pocket money, or visiting a lonely neighbour with a grown-up. Who acts: Army. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Army), 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:4 # text = For a child today it can be small and real: bringing a tin to the food bank, planning to give part of pocket money, or visiting a lonely neighbour with a grown-up. # 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 ×5 1 For for ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:det 3 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 5 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 6 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 7 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 8 cop _ _ 8 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 conj _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 12 bringing bring VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 parataxis _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 tin tin NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 bank bank NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:nmod 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 planning plan VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 conj _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 23 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 pocket pocket NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 or or CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 visiting visit VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 conj _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 lonely lonely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 neighbour neighbour NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 33 with with ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=35:det 35 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 37 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 36 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 37 punct _ _ 37 up up NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=35:compound|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | can | Army | | | | today | small *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | Army *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **bring** | gerund | | a tin | | the food bank | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tin=Theme to bank=Destination | | 4 | **plan** | gerund | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **give** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | part of pocket money | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme | | 6 | **visit** | gerund | | a lonely neighbour | | | | a grown up *obl* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neighbour=Co-Agent | | 7 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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: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 ×5. **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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