--- title: Jesus taught that visiting someone in need is like visiting him; Chr… — Getting old: how long people and animals live · tree and pragmatics description: Jesus taught that visiting someone in need is like visiting him; Christians and people of many faiths visit the old and lonely. Who acts: Jesus, Christians. 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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 (Jesus, Christians), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:052-getting-old-how-long-people-and-animals-live.lesson:16 # text = Jesus taught that visiting someone in need is like visiting him; Christians and people of many faiths visit the old and lonely. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 052-getting-old-how-long-people-and-animals-live.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): no change 1 Jesus Jesus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 taught teach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 that that SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 4 visiting visit VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 nsubj _ _ 5 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 4 obj _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 need need NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 9 like like SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 10 visiting visit VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 ccomp _ _ 11 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 Christians Christian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 faiths faith NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ _ 19 visit visit VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 obj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 lonely lonely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 conj _ _ 24 . . 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 | **teach** *speech: other* | past | Jesus | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **visit** | gerund | | someone | | need | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Co-Agent | | 3 | **is** | present | | | | | | visit *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **visit** | present | Christians and people of many faiths | the old | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent old=Co-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:052-getting-old-how-long-people-and-animals-live.lesson:16`. **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): no change. **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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