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title: Christians disagree about how to read the six days, as literal days… — Creation: God the maker · tree and pragmatics
description: Christians disagree about how to read the six days, as literal days or as a poem-like story, but they agree on the main message: God is the creator, and science and faith can ask different questions. Who acts: Christians, God, science. A sentence of the lesson «Creation: God the maker» of the religi
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# Creation: God the maker, sentence 4

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Christians disagree about how to read the six days, as literal days or as a poem-like story, but they agree on the main message: God is the creator, and science and faith can ask different questions.

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**Who acts:** Christians, God, science · **What happens:** disagree, read, agree, be, ask · **To what, where:** creator, different questions

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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, God, science), 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:4
# text = Christians disagree about how to read the six days, as literal days or as a poem-like story, but they agree on the main message: God is the creator, and science and faith can ask different questions.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Christians	Christian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	disagree	disagree	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	literal	literal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
13	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=13:cc
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	_	17	punct	_	_
19	like	like	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=2:cc
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	agree	agree	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	message	message	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
29	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
30	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	creator	creator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	appos	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=36:punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=33:cc
36	science	science	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=36:cc
38	faith	faith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	_
39	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	conj	_	_
41	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	questions	question	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obj	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **disagree** | present | Christians |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **read** | to-infinitive | Christians *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **agree** *speech: agree* | present | Christians *= christian* |  |  |  |  | on the main message | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent on message=Topic |
| 4 | **is a** | present | God | the creator |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | can | science and faith | different questions |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=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:4`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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/).

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