The church year, sentence 3
Many churches change the colours of their cloths with the seasons, for example purple for Advent and Lent, white or gold for Christmas and Easter, and green for the ordinary weeks.
Who acts: Many churches · What happens: change · To what, where: colours
This is a sentence of the lesson «The church year» 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 (Many churches), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 churches | amod |
| 2 | churches | church | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 change | nsubj |
| 3 | change | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 colours | det |
| 5 | colours | colour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 change | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 cloths | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 cloths | nmod:poss |
| 8 | cloths | cloth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 colours | nmod |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 seasons | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 seasons | det |
| 11 | seasons | season | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 change | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 purple | punct |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 purple | case |
| 14 | example | example | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 purple | compound |
| 15 | purple | purple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 change | advcl |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 Advent | case |
| 17 | Advent | advent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 purple | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 Lent | cc |
| 19 | Lent | Lent | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Advent | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 white | punct |
| 21 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 purple | conj |
| 22 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 gold | cc |
| 23 | gold | gold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 white | conj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 Christmas | case |
| 25 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 white | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 Easter | cc |
| 27 | Easter | Easter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Christmas | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 green | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 green | cc |
| 30 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 white | conj |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 34 weeks | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 weeks | det |
| 33 | ordinary | ordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 weeks | amod |
| 34 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 green | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 change | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | present | Many churches | the colours of churches's cloths | season | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Patient |
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:026-the-church-year.lesson:3.
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): R5-strong ×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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