Churches of the English-speaking world I, sentence 4
For a child today it helps to know that a friend at a different church is still a fellow Christian: they agree on far more than they disagree on, and many now work and pray together.
Who acts: child, friend, churches, many · What happens: help, know, be, agree, disagree, work · To what, where: child, fellow Christian · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Churches of the English-speaking world I» 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 (child, friend, churches, many), 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 | _ | 4 today | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 child | det |
| 3 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 helps | obl |
| 4 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 child | nmod |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 helps | expl |
| 6 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 know | mark |
| 8 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 helps | xcomp |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 Christian | mark |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 friend | det |
| 11 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Christian | nsubj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 church | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 church | det |
| 14 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 church | amod |
| 15 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 friend | nmod |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 Christian | cop |
| 17 | still | still | ADV | _ | 20 Christian | advmod |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 Christian | det |
| 19 | fellow | fellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Christian | amod |
| 20 | Christian | Christian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 know | ccomp |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 agree | punct |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 agree | nsubj |
| 23 | agree | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 helps | parataxis |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 more | case |
| 25 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 more | advmod |
| 26 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 23 agree | obl |
| 27 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 29 disagree | mark |
| 28 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 disagree | nsubj |
| 29 | disagree | disagree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 more | advcl |
| 30 | on | on | ADV | _ | 29 disagree | advmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 work | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 work | cc |
| 33 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 work | nsubj |
| 34 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 35 work | advmod |
| 35 | work | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 agree | conj |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 pray | cc |
| 37 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 work | conj |
| 38 | together | together | ADV | _ | 37 pray | advmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 helps | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | present | a child for today | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | know | to-infinitive | a child for today not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | a friend at a different church | a fellow Christian | still | tree rules | |||
| 4 | agree speech: agree | present | churches = church | on more | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent on more=Topic | ||||
| 5 | disagree | present | churches = church | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | work | present | many | now | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | pray | present | many not said here | together property | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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:028-churches-of-the-english-speaking-world-i.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): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×3. 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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