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title: Genesis 1 says God made man and woman in his own image, so Christian… — Creation: God the maker · tree and pragmatics
description: Genesis 1 says God made man and woman in his own image, so Christians believe every person has special worth and deserves respect. Who acts: Genesis, God, Christians, person. A sentence of the lesson «Creation: God the maker» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency
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# Creation: God the maker, sentence 9

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Genesis 1 says God made man and woman in his own image, so Christians believe every person has special worth and deserves respect.

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**Who acts:** Genesis, God, Christians, person · **What happens:** say, make, believe, have, deserve, image · **To what, where:** man, own image, special worth, respect · **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 (Genesis, God, Christians, 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:9
# text = Genesis 1 says God made man and woman in his own image, so Christians believe every person has special worth and deserves respect.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Genesis	Genesis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	flat	_	_
3	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
6	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	image	image	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	Christians	Christian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	believe	believe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
17	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
18	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
20	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	worth	worth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:obj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	deserves	deserve	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
24	respect	respect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Genesis |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **make** | past | God | man and woman |  | God's own image |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Product |
| 3 | **believe** | present | Christians |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **have** | present | every person | special worth |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worth=Patient |
| 5 | **deserve** | present | every person *not said here* | respect |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **image** |  | 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): R8-pos-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.

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