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title: Muslims believe Isa (Jesus) was a great prophet born of Mary but not… — Olympiad: Bible stories in order and festivals o… · tree and pragmatics
description: Muslims believe Isa (Jesus) was a great prophet born of Mary but not the Son of God; Christians believe he is the Son of God. Who acts: Muslims, Isa, Christians. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: Bible stories in order and festivals of many faiths ★★★» of the religion ethics course of Mova's prima
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# Olympiad: Bible stories in order and festivals of many faiths ★★★, sentence 16

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Muslims believe Isa (Jesus) was a great prophet born of Mary but not the Son of God; Christians believe he is the Son of God.

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**Who acts:** Muslims, Isa, Christians · **What happens:** believe, be, bear · **To what, where:** great prophet, Son · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: Bible stories in order and festivals of many faiths ★★★» 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 (Muslims, Isa, Christians), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:102-olympiad-bible-stories-in-order-and-festivals-of-many-faiths.lesson:16
# text = Muslims believe Isa (Jesus) was a great prophet born of Mary but not the Son of God; Christians believe he is the Son of God.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 102-olympiad-bible-stories-in-order-and-festivals-of-many-faiths.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Muslims	Muslim	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	believe	believe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Isa	Isa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
4	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Jesus	Jesus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
6	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	prophet	prophet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	_
11	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Mary	Mary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Son	Son	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	Christians	Christian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	believe	believe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	Son	Son	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	ccomp	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
29	.	.	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 | Muslims |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Isa | a great prophet |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **bear** | participle |  | a great prophet *not said here* |  |  |  | of Mary but the Son of God | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **believe** | present | Christians |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **is a** | present | Isa | the Son |  |  |  | of God | 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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**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:102-olympiad-bible-stories-in-order-and-festivals-of-many-faiths.lesson:16`.

**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): 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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