--- title: Christianity is the largest world religion, and most Christians now… — Churches of the English-speaking world II · tree and pragmatics description: Christianity is the largest world religion, and most Christians now live in Africa, Latin America and Asia; ecumenism means churches working together, and for a child it means your friend's church is part of the same big family. Who acts: Christianity, most Christians, ecumenism, churches. 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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 (Christianity, most Christians, ecumenism, churches), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:029-churches-of-the-english-speaking-world-ii.lesson:4 # text = Christianity is the largest world religion, and most Christians now live in Africa, Latin America and Asia; ecumenism means churches working together, and for a child it means your friend's church is part of the same big family. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 029-churches-of-the-english-speaking-world-ii.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): R2-punct-next ×1 1 Christianity Christianity PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 4 largest large ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 6 amod _ _ 5 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 religion religion NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=6:punct 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 9 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 10 amod _ _ 10 Christians Christian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 11 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 12 advmod _ _ 12 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 Africa Africa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 Latin Latin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 America America PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 Asia Asia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 21 ecumenism ecumenism NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 23 churches church NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 24 working work VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 23 acl _ _ 25 together together ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 28 for for ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 31 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 33 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod:poss _ _ 35 's 's PART POS _ 34 case _ _ 36 church church NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 37 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 cop _ _ 38 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 ccomp _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 41 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 42 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Christianity | the largest world religion | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **live** | present | most Christians | | | Africa and Latin America and Asia | now | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in africa=Location | | 3 | **mean** | present | ecumenism | churches | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent church=Topic | | 4 | **work together** | gerund | churches *not said here* | | | | | together *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **mean** | present | it | | | | | for a child | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot for child=Attribute | | 6 | **is a** | present | your friend's church | part | | | | of the same big family | tree rules | 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:029-churches-of-the-english-speaking-world-ii.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): R2-punct-next ×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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