--- title: Christians call every child a gift from God and baptise babies or th… — Life begins: being born and growing up · tree and pragmatics description: Christians call every child a gift from God and baptise babies or thank God for them; Jesus told of the tiny mustard seed that grows into a big plant. Who acts: Christians, Jesus, tiny mustard seed. 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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 (Christians, Jesus, tiny mustard seed), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:051-life-begins-being-born-and-growing-up.lesson:15 # text = Christians call every child a gift from God and baptise babies or thank God for them; Jesus told of the tiny mustard seed that grows into a big plant. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 051-life-begins-being-born-and-growing-up.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Christians Christian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 call call VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 4 det _ _ 4 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 gift gift NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:obj 7 from from ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 baptise baptise VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 11 babies baby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 12 or or CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 thank thank VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=10:conj 14 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 15 for for ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obl _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 Jesus Jesus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 20 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 22 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 23 mustard mustard NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 seed seed NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 25 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 26 nsubj _ _ 26 grows grow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 acl:relcl _ _ 27 into into ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 plant plant NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **call** *speech: assert* | present | Christians | | every child | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent child=Recipient | | 2 | **baptise** | present | Christians *not said here* | babies | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **thank** *speech: thank* | present | Christians *not said here* | | God | | | for Christians *= christian* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent god=Theme for they=Attribute | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Jesus | | | | | of the tiny mustard seed | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **grow** | present | the tiny mustard seed | | | | | into a big plant *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into plant=Result | 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:051-life-begins-being-born-and-growing-up.lesson:15`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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. 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