Life begins: being born and growing up, sentence 15
Christians call every child a gift from God and baptise babies or thank God for them; Jesus told of the tiny mustard seed that grows into a big plant.
Who acts: Christians, Jesus, tiny mustard seed · What happens: call, baptise, thank, tell, grow · To what, where: child, babies, God, big plant · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Life begins: being born and growing up» 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 (Christians, Jesus, tiny mustard seed), 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 | Christians | Christian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 2 call | nsubj |
| 2 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 child | det |
| 4 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 call | obj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 gift | det |
| 6 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 call | xcomp |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 God | case |
| 8 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 gift | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 baptise | cc |
| 10 | baptise | baptise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 call | conj |
| 11 | babies | baby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 baptise | obj |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 thank | cc |
| 13 | thank | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 call | conj |
| 14 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 thank | obj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 them | case |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 thank | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 told | punct |
| 18 | Jesus | Jesus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 told | nsubj |
| 19 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 call | parataxis |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 seed | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 seed | det |
| 22 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 seed | amod |
| 23 | mustard | mustard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 seed | compound |
| 24 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 told | obl |
| 25 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 grows | nsubj |
| 26 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 seed | acl:relcl |
| 27 | into | into | ADP | _ | 30 plant | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 plant | det |
| 29 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 plant | amod |
| 30 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 grows | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 call | punct |
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 | Christians | every child | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent child=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | baptise | present | Christians not said here | babies | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | thank speech: thank | present | Christians not said here | God | for Christians = christian | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent god=Theme for they=Attribute | |||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | Jesus | of the tiny mustard seed | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | grow | present | the tiny mustard seed | into a big plant result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into plant=Result |
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:051-life-begins-being-born-and-growing-up.lesson:15.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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.
See the release 0.4.
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