--- title: God gives people the job of looking after the earth, like caretakers… — Creation: God the maker · tree and pragmatics description: God gives people the job of looking after the earth, like caretakers in a borrowed house, not owners who may use everything up. Who acts: God, job, owners. 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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 (God, job, owners), 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:3 # text = God gives people the job of looking after the earth, like caretakers in a borrowed house, not owners who may use everything up. # 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): R5-strong ×1 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 _ _ 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 _ _ 7 looking look VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 acl _ _ 8 after after ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 like like ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 caretakers caretaker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:obl 14 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 borrowed borrow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 amod _ _ 17 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 20 owners owner NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 21 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 23 nsubj _ _ 22 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 use use VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 acl:relcl _ _ 24 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 23 obj _ _ 25 up up ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | present | God | the job | people | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent people=Recipient job=Theme | | 2 | **look** | gerund | the job *not said here* | | | | after the earth | like caretakers in a borrowed house and owners | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **borrow** | participle | | | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **use up** | may | owners | everything | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Patient | 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:3`. **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): R5-strong ×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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Creation: God the maker, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/1-creation-god-the-maker/2/) - next →: [Creation: God the maker, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/1-creation-god-the-maker/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/1-creation-god-the-maker/)