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title: Christians believe this means the world is not an accident: it was m… — Creation: God the maker · tree and pragmatics
description: Christians believe this means the world is not an accident: it was made on purpose and with care, and every person, made "in God's image", has special worth. Who acts: Christians, this, world, person. A sentence of the lesson «Creation: God the maker» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary 
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# Creation: God the maker, sentence 2

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Christians believe this means the world is not an accident: it was made on purpose and with care, and every person, made "in God's image", has special worth.

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**Who acts:** Christians, this, world, person, God · **What happens:** believe, mean, not be, make, have, image · **To what, where:** accident, world, purpose, person, image, special worth · **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 (Christians, this, world, person), 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:2
# text = Christians believe this means the world is not an accident: it was made on purpose and with care, and every person, made "in God's image", has special worth.
# 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 ×2
1	Christians	Christian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	believe	believe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
4	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	accident	accident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	ccomp	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	parataxis	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	det	_	_
23	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
26	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod:poss	_	_
29	's	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	_
30	image	image	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
34	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	worth	worth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	.	.	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 | **believe** | present | Christians |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **mean** | present | this |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **is a** | present | the world | a accident |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **make** | past · passive |  | world |  | purpose and care |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 5 | **make** | participle |  | every person *not said here* |  | God's image |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 6 | **have** | present | every person | special worth |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worth=Patient |
| 7 | **image** *in a quote* |  | God |  |  |  |  |  | nom image «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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**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 ×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.

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