--- title: Christians at Ellie's church believe every baby is known and loved b… — Life begins: being born and growing up · tree and pragmatics description: Christians at Ellie's church believe every baby is known and loved by God and is a gift, not a thing anyone owns; other faiths welcome babies with their own blessings, non-religious families may hold a naming day, and everyone agrees a new life is a wonder. 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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, anyone, other faiths, non-religious families), 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:3 # text = Christians at Ellie's church believe every baby is known and loved by God and is a gift, not a thing anyone owns; other faiths welcome babies with their own blessings, non-religious families may hold a naming day, and everyone agrees a new life is a wonder. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×2, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Christians Christian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 2 at at ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 3 Ellie Ellie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ _ 4 's 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 church church NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 6 believe believe VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 7 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 8 det _ _ 8 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj:pass _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux:pass _ _ 10 known know VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 ccomp _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 loved love VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 conj _ _ 13 by by ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 obl:agent _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 gift gift NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 22 advmod _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:det 22 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 23 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 24 nsubj _ _ 24 owns own VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 acl:relcl _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=6:punct 26 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 faiths faith NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 28 welcome welcome VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 29 babies baby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ _ 30 with with ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 32 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 blessings blessing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nmod _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 non-religious non-religious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:conj 37 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 38 hold hold VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=28:conj 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 naming naming NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 compound _ _ 41 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 42 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 44 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 45 nsubj _ _ 45 agrees agree VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=28:conj 46 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 47 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 48 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 nsubj _ _ 49 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 51 cop _ _ 50 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 51 wonder wonder NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 ccomp _ _ 52 . . 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 | **believe** | present | Christians at Ellie's church | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **know** | present · passive | | every baby | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | | 3 | **love** | participle | | | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **is a** | present | | a gift and a thing | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **own** | present | anyone | a thing *not said here* | | | | | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot thing=Theme | | 6 | **welcome** | present | other faiths | babies | | | | with faiths's own blessings | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Theme | | 7 | **hold** | may | non-religious families | | | | day | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **agree** *speech: agree* | present | everyone | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **is a** | present | a new life | a wonder | | | | | tree rules | | 10 | **bless** | | faiths *= faith* | | | | | | nom blessing «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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:3`. **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, R3-conj-first ×2, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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