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title: For a child today it helps to know that a friend at a different chur… — Churches of the English-speaking world I · tree and pragmatics
description: For a child today it helps to know that a friend at a different church is still a fellow Christian: they agree on far more than they disagree on, and many now work and pray together. Who acts: child, friend, churches, many. A sentence of the lesson «Churches of the English-speaking world I» of the r
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# Churches of the English-speaking world I, sentence 4

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For a child today it helps to know that a friend at a different church is still a fellow Christian: they agree on far more than they disagree on, and many now work and pray together.

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**Who acts:** child, friend, churches, many · **What happens:** help, know, be, agree, disagree, work · **To what, where:** child, fellow Christian · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (child, friend, churches, many), 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:4
# text = For a child today it helps to know that a friend at a different church is still a fellow Christian: they agree on far more than they disagree on, and many now work and pray together.
# 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): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×3
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	6	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:compound
4	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obl
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	expl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:nsubj
6	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
17	still	still	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	fellow	fellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	Christian	Christian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	ccomp	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:ccomp|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	agree	agree	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
25	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	26	advmod	_	_
26	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	23	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:obj
27	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	disagree	disagree	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	_
30	on	on	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
33	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=35:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:JJ:PronType=Ind
34	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	35	advmod	_	_
35	work	work	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	pray	pray	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=35:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
38	together	together	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **help** | present |  | a child for today |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **know** | to-infinitive | a child for today *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is a** | present | a friend at a different church | a fellow Christian |  |  | still |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **agree** *speech: agree* | present | churches *= church* |  |  |  |  | on more | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent on more=Topic |
| 5 | **disagree** | present | churches *= church* |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **work** | present | many |  |  |  | now |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **pray** | present | many *not said here* |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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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:028-churches-of-the-english-speaking-world-i.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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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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