Weddings, funerals and the people of the church, sentence 5

For a child today this means the church is not just a building or one leader on Sunday, but a whole family of people serving, and that you can help too.

Who acts: this, church, whole family, you · What happens: mean, not be, serve, help · To what, where: building · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Weddings, funerals and the people of the church» 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 (this, church, whole family, you), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 child	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 child	det
3	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 means	obl
4	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 child	nmod:unmarked
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 means	nsubj
6	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 church	det
8	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 building	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 building	cop
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 building	advmod
11	just	just	ADV	_	13 building	advmod
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 building	det
13	building	building	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 means	ccomp
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 leader	cc
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 leader	nummod
16	leader	leader	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 building	conj
17	on	on	ADP	_	18 Sunday	case
18	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 leader	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 serving	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 serving	cc
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 family	det
22	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 family	amod
23	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 serving	nsubj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 people	case
25	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 family	nmod
26	serving	serve	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 means	ccomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 help	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 help	cc
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 help	mark
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 help	nsubj
31	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 help	aux
32	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 serving	conj
33	too	too	ADV	_	32 help	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present	this		for a child today	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not is a	present	the church	a building or one leader on Sunday		tree rules
3	serve	gerund	a whole family of people			vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent
4	help	can	you			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=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, 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:025-weddings-funerals-and-the-people-of-the-church.lesson:5.

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): no change. 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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