--- title: Most Christian churches call organ donation an act of love, followin… — Gifts of life: organ donation and giving blood · tree and pragmatics description: Most Christian churches call organ donation an act of love, following Jesus who gave himself for others, and many Muslim, Jewish, Hindu and Sikh leaders support it too; but it is a personal choice, some people say no for religious or personal reasons, and their choice is respected. 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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 (Most Christian churches, act, Jesus, Hindu leaders), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:078-gifts-of-life-organ-donation-and-giving-blood.lesson:4 # text = Most Christian churches call organ donation an act of love, following Jesus who gave himself for others, and many Muslim, Jewish, Hindu and Sikh leaders support it too; but it is a personal choice, some people say no for religious or personal reasons, and their choice is respected. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 078-gifts-of-life-organ-donation-and-giving-blood.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, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 3 amod _ _ 2 Christian Christian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 churches church NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 call call VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 organ organ NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 donation donation NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 act act NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 xcomp _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 following follow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 acl _ _ 13 Jesus Jesus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 14 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 15 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl:relcl _ _ 16 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 15 obj _ _ 17 for for ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 21 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 Muslim Muslim ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct 24 Jewish Jewish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 Hindu Hindu PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 Sikh Sikh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:conj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 29 leaders leader NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 30 support support VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 31 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 too too ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 33 ; ; PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 34 but but CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 36 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 cop _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 personal personal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 choice choice NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ _ 40 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 41 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 42 det _ _ 42 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 nsubj _ _ 43 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 acl:relcl _ _ 44 no no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 43 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=43:discourse 45 for for ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 46 religious religious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 amod _ _ 47 or or CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 48 personal personal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 conj _ _ 49 reasons reason NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 obl _ _ 50 , , PUNCT , _ 55 punct _ _ 51 and and CCONJ CC _ 55 cc _ _ 52 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 53 nmod:poss _ _ 53 choice choice NOUN NN Number=Sing 55 nsubj _ _ 54 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 55 aux:pass _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=55:cop 55 respected respected VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 43 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=43:conj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 56 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **call** *speech: assert* | present | Most Christian churches | organ donation | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent donation=Recipient | | 2 | **follow** | gerund | a act of love *not said here* | Jesus | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jesus=Theme | | 3 | **give** | past | Jesus | Jesus | | | | for others | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent himself=Theme for other=Asset | | 4 | **support** | present | Hindu leaders | donation | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | | 5 | **is a** | present | donation | a personal choice | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | some people | a personal choice *not said here* | | | | for religious reasons | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent choice=Topic | | 7 | **respected** | present · passive | | people's choice | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **act** | | love | | | | | | nom act «communication intransitive»: of=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:078-gifts-of-life-organ-donation-and-giving-blood.lesson:4`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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