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title: God gives people the job of caring for the animals and the land (Gen… — Creation: God the maker · tree and pragmatics
description: God gives people the job of caring for the animals and the land (Genesis 1 and 2); this is called stewardship. Who acts: God, job. A sentence of the lesson «Creation: God the maker» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Creation: God the maker, sentence 12

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God gives people the job of caring for the animals and the land (Genesis 1 and 2); this is called stewardship.

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**Who acts:** God, job · **What happens:** give, care, call · **To what, where:** job, people, this · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Creation: God the maker» 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 (God, job), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:001-creation-god-the-maker.lesson:12
# text = God gives people the job of caring for the animals and the land (Genesis 1 and 2); this is called stewardship.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 001-creation-god-the-maker.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4
1	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	iobj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:obj
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
7	caring	care	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
14	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct
15	Genesis	Genesis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:unmarked	_	_
16	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	conj	_	_
19	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	18	punct	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
21	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
24	stewardship	stewardship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	xcomp	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present | God | the job | people |  |  | 1  Genesis *obl* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent people=Recipient job=Theme |
| 2 | **care** | gerund | the job *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the animals and the land | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for animal=Theme |
| 3 | **call** | present · passive |  | this |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:001-creation-god-the-maker.lesson:12`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4. **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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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