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title: In the 1500s reformers like Martin Luther protested against problems… — Churches of the English-speaking world I · tree and pragmatics
description: In the 1500s reformers like Martin Luther protested against problems in the Catholic Church; this is the Reformation. Who acts: reformers, this. A sentence of the lesson «Churches of the English-speaking world I» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the
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# Churches of the English-speaking world I, sentence 11

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In the 1500s reformers like Martin Luther protested against problems in the Catholic Church; this is the Reformation.

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**Who acts:** reformers, this · **What happens:** protest, be · **To what, where:** 1500s, Reformation

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Churches of the English-speaking world I» 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 (reformers, this), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:028-churches-of-the-english-speaking-world-i.lesson:11
# text = In the 1500s reformers like Martin Luther protested against problems in the Catholic Church; this is the Reformation.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 028-churches-of-the-english-speaking-world-i.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	1500s	1500	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	_
4	reformers	reformer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Martin	Martin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	Luther	Luther	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	protested	protest	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	against	against	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	problems	problem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Catholic	Catholic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Church	Church	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Reformation	reformation	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:parataxis|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **protest** *speech: disagree* | past | reformers like Martin |  |  | the 1500s |  | against problems in the Catholic Church | vn rebel-71.2-2 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent against problem=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** | present | this | the Reformation |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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**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): 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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