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title: Children can join church or community groups that visit lonely old p… — Kindness to the dying and visiting the old · tree and pragmatics
description: Children can join church or community groups that visit lonely old people, with a grown-up. Who acts: Children, community groups. A sentence of the lesson «Kindness to the dying and visiting the old» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Kindness to the dying and visiting the old, sentence 17

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Children can join church or community groups that visit lonely old people, with a grown-up.

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**Who acts:** Children, community groups · **What happens:** join, visit · **To what, where:** church, lonely old people

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Kindness to the dying and visiting the old» 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 (Children, community groups), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:077-kindness-to-the-dying-and-visiting-the-old.lesson:17
# text = Children can join church or community groups that visit lonely old people, with a grown-up.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 077-kindness-to-the-dying-and-visiting-the-old.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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	join	join	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	community	community	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	groups	group	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	visit	visit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	lonely	lonely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	grown	grow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct
18	up	up	ADP	RP	_	16	compound	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **join** | can | Children | church or community groups |  |  |  | with a grown | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent church=Patient with grow=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **visit** | present | community groups | lonely old people |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Co-Agent |

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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:077-kindness-to-the-dying-and-visiting-the-old.lesson:17`.

**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): R6-punct-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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