--- title: A mosque is the Muslim place of prayer; people take off their shoes… — Islam · tree and pragmatics description: A mosque is the Muslim place of prayer; people take off their shoes and pray side by side in rows facing Mecca, the holy city of Islam, led by an imam; standing shoulder to shoulder shows that everyone is equal before God. Who acts: mosque, people, rows, standing. A sentence of the lesson «Islam» of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/31-islam/11/) [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/) / [Islam](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/31-islam/) / 11 # Islam, sentence 11 A mosque is the Muslim place of prayer; people take off their shoes and pray side by side in rows facing Mecca, the holy city of Islam, led by an imam; standing shoulder to shoulder shows that everyone is equal before God. **Who acts:** mosque, people, rows, standing, everyone · **What happens:** be, take off, pray, face, lead, stand · **To what, where:** Muslim place, shoes, side, rows, Mecca, shoulder · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Islam» 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 (mosque, people, rows, standing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:031-islam.lesson:11 # text = A mosque is the Muslim place of prayer; people take off their shoes and pray side by side in rows facing Mecca, the holy city of Islam, led by an imam; standing shoulder to shoulder shows that everyone is equal before God. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 031-islam.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 ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 mosque mosque NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 Muslim Muslim ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 prayer prayer NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 10 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 11 take take VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 12 off off ADP RP _ 11 compound:prt _ _ 13 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 shoes shoe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 pray pray VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 17 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:obj 18 by by ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:obl 20 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 rows row NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:nmod 22 facing face VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 acl _ _ 23 Mecca Mecca PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 holy holy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 appos _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 Islam Islam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 led lead VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 acl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:conj 32 by by ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 imam imam NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 35 ; ; PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 36 standing stand VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 40 csubj _ _ 37 shoulder shoulder NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 38 to to ADP IN _ 39 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=39:mark|HaikuPos=PART:TO:_ 39 shoulder shoulder VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 xcomp _ _ 40 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 41 that that SCONJ IN _ 44 mark _ _ 42 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 44 nsubj _ _ 43 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 44 cop _ _ 44 equal equal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 ccomp _ _ 45 before before ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 44 obl _ _ 47 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 | **is a** | present | a mosque | the Muslim place | | | | of prayer | tree rules | | 2 | **take off** | present | people | prayer's shoes | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme | | 3 | **pray** | present | people *not said here* | side by side | | rows | | | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 4 | **face** | gerund | rows *not said here* | | Mecca | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mecca=Destination | | 5 | **lead** | participle | | Mecca *not said here* | | | | by a imam | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by imam=Destination | | 6 | **stand** | gerund | | shoulder | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **shoulder** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **show** | present | standing | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **is** | present | everyone | | | | before God | equal *property* | 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:031-islam.lesson:11`. **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 ×2. **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/). - ← previous: [Islam, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/31-islam/10/) - next →: [Islam, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/31-islam/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/31-islam/)