Baptism, communion and confirmation, sentence 13
Whether to baptise babies or only believers is a disputed question among Christians.
What happens: baptise, dispute, be · To what, where: babies, disputed question · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Baptism, communion and confirmation» 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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 3 baptise | mark |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 3 baptise | mark |
| 3 | baptise | baptise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 question | csubj |
| 4 | babies | baby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 baptise | obj |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 believers | cc |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 believers | advmod |
| 7 | believers | believer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 babies | conj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 question | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 question | det |
| 10 | disputed | dispute | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 question | amod |
| 11 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | among | among | ADP | _ | 13 Christians | case |
| 13 | Christians | Christian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 11 question | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 question | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | baptise | to-infinitive | babies or believers | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | dispute | participle | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | be speech: other | present | a disputed question | among Christians | tree rules |
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, 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:024-baptism-communion-and-confirmation.lesson:13.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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