--- title: Some Christians read the six days as six literal days; many read the… — Creation: God the maker · tree and pragmatics description: Some Christians read the six days as six literal days; many read them as a poem-like story that teaches who made the world and why (disputed among Christians). Who acts: Christians, many, like story. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Christians, many, like story), 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:15 # text = Some Christians read the six days as six literal days; many read them as a poem-like story that teaches who made the world and why (disputed among Christians). # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 Christians Christian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 3 read read VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 7 as as ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 9 literal literal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct 12 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 nsubj _ _ 13 read read VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 14 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 as as ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 17 poem poem NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 18 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 19 punct _ _ 19 like like ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 21 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 22 nsubj _ _ 22 teaches teach VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl:relcl _ _ 23 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 24 nsubj _ _ 24 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 ccomp _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 30 advmod _ _ 29 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 30 punct _ _ 30 disputed dispute VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 conj _ _ 31 among among ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 Christians Christian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 30 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=30:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 33 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 30 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=32:punct 34 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **read** | past | some Christians | | | | day | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **read** | past | many | Christians *= christian* | | | | as a like story | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus as story=Attribute | | 3 | **teach** *speech: other* | present | a like story | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **make** | past | | the world | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent world=Product | | 5 | **dispute** | participle | | | | | | among Christians | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: 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](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: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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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/). - ← previous: [Creation: God the maker, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/1-creation-god-the-maker/14/) - next →: [Creation: God the maker, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/1-creation-god-the-maker/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/1-creation-god-the-maker/)