--- title: Christians say grace before meals and thank God for big and small th… — Life is precious: wonder and gratitude · tree and pragmatics description: Christians say grace before meals and thank God for big and small things; many Jews and Muslims also give thanks at meals. Who acts: Christians, many Jews. 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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, many Jews), 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:8 # text = Christians say grace before meals and thank God for big and small things; many Jews and Muslims also give thanks at meals. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Christians Christian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 grace grace NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 4 before before ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 meals meal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:nmod 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 thank thank VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 8 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:iobj 9 for for ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 10 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 conj _ _ 13 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=2:punct 15 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 Jews Jew PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 Muslims Muslim PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 16 conj _ _ 19 also also ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 give give VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=7:conj 21 thanks thanks NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 20 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 22 at at ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 meals meal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:nmod 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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Christians | grace | | | before meals | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent grace=Topic | | 2 | **thank** *speech: thank* | present | Christians *not said here* | | God | | | for big things | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent god=Theme for thing=Attribute | | 3 | **give** | present | many Jews and Muslims | thanks | | meals | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent thanks=Theme at meal=Asset | 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:054-life-is-precious-wonder-and-gratitude.lesson:8`. **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 ×1, 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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