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title: Many Christians accept the Big Bang and evolution and see God behind… — Creation: God the maker · tree and pragmatics
description: Many Christians accept the Big Bang and evolution and see God behind them; some Christians do not (disputed). Who acts: Many Christians. 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 clau
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# Creation: God the maker, sentence 16

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Many Christians accept the Big Bang and evolution and see God behind them; some Christians do not (disputed).

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**Who acts:** Many Christians · **What happens:** accept, see, not dispute · **To what, where:** Big Bang, God, Christians

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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 (Many Christians), 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:16
# text = Many Christians accept the Big Bang and evolution and see God behind them; some Christians do not (disputed).
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Christians	Christian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	accept	accept	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Big	Big	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	6	compound	_	_
6	Bang	Bang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	evolution	evolution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
11	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
15	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
16	Christians	Christian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
19	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	20	punct	_	_
20	disputed	dispute	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
21	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	20	punct	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accept** | present | Many Christians | the Big Bang and evolution |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bang=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | present | Many Christians *not said here* | God |  |  |  | behind Christians *= christian* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer god=Stimulus |
| 3 | **not** **dispute** | present · passive · do-support |  | some Christians |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:16`.

**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): 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/).

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