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title: Big feelings can come out as tears, both sad and happy; at a baptism… — Life is precious: wonder and gratitude · tree and pragmatics
description: Big feelings can come out as tears, both sad and happy; at a baptism the church thanks God for a child's life. Who acts: Big feelings, church. A sentence of the lesson «Life is precious: wonder and gratitude» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Life is precious: wonder and gratitude, sentence 15

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Big feelings can come out as tears, both sad and happy; at a baptism the church thanks God for a child's life.

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**Who acts:** Big feelings, church · **What happens:** come out, thanks · **To what, where:** God, baptism

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Life is precious: wonder and gratitude» 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 (Big feelings, church), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:054-life-is-precious-wonder-and-gratitude.lesson:15
# text = Big feelings can come out as tears, both sad and happy; at a baptism the church thanks God for a child's life.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 054-life-is-precious-wonder-and-gratitude.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	feelings	feeling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc:preconj	_	_
10	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:parataxis
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	baptism	baptism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:det
18	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:compound
19	thanks	thanks	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
20	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	's	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come out** | can | Big feelings |  |  |  |  | as tears; out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **thanks** | present | the church | God |  | a baptism |  | for a child's life | tree rules |

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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.

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**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:054-life-is-precious-wonder-and-gratitude.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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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