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title: For a child today these stories mean: you can be respectful where yo… — Daniel, Jonah and the prophets · tree and pragmatics
description: For a child today these stories mean: you can be respectful where you live and still stay true to your faith, God gives second chances even to people we dislike, and speaking up for those treated unfairly is a calling. Who acts: stories, you, God, we. A sentence of the lesson «Daniel, Jonah and the 
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# Daniel, Jonah and the prophets, sentence 4

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For a child today these stories mean: you can be respectful where you live and still stay true to your faith, God gives second chances even to people we dislike, and speaking up for those treated unfairly is a calling.

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**Who acts:** stories, you, God, we · **What happens:** mean, be, live, stay, give, dislike · **To what, where:** second chances, people, those · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Daniel, Jonah and the prophets» 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 (stories, you, God, we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:010-daniel-jonah-and-the-prophets.lesson:4
# text = For a child today these stories mean: you can be respectful where you live and still stay true to your faith, God gives second chances even to people we dislike, and speaking up for those treated unfairly is a calling.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 010-daniel-jonah-and-the-prophets.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, R6-punct-agree ×2
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod:unmarked	_	_
5	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	mean	mean	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
12	respectful	respectful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	ccomp	_	_
13	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	15	advmod	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	still	still	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
19	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	faith	faith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct
24	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
26	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	27	amod	_	_
27	chances	chance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
28	even	even	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
31	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	dislike	dislike	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	acl:relcl	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	parataxis	_	_
36	up	up	ADP	RP	_	35	compound:prt	_	_
37	for	for	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
38	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	35	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=43:nsubj
39	treated	treat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	38	acl	_	_
40	unfairly	unfairly	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
41	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	cop	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	calling	calling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	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 | **mean** | present | this stories |  |  |  |  | for a child  today | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot for child=Attribute |
| 2 | **is** | can | you |  |  |  |  | respectful *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **live** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **stay** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  | still | true *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **give** | present | God | second chances | people |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent chance=Theme to people=Recipient |
| 6 | **dislike** | present | we | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Stimulus |
| 7 | **speak up** *speech: other* | gerund |  | those |  |  |  |  | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **treat** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | unfairly *property* | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | for a calling | 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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**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, 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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