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# Olympiad: Bible stories in order and festivals of many faiths ★★★, sentence 4

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When you speak about any faith, say what its followers believe: "Christians believe Jesus rose from the dead", "Muslims believe the Qur'an is God's word"; a fair answer reports a belief truly without mocking it and without pretending everyone shares it.

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**Who acts:** you, followers, Christians, Jesus, Muslims, Qur'an · **What happens:** speak, say, believe, rise, be, report · **To what, where:** dead, word, belief, faith · **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 (you, followers, Christians, Jesus), 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:4
# text = When you speak about any faith, say what its followers believe: "Christians believe Jesus rose from the dead", "Muslims believe the Qur'an is God's word"; a fair answer reports a belief truly without mocking it and without pretending everyone shares it.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×2
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	3	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	speak	speak	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
4	about	about	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	faith	faith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	12	obj	_	_
10	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	followers	follower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	believe	believe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
15	Christians	Christian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	believe	believe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	_
17	Jesus	Jesus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	obl	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
25	Muslims	Muslim	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
26	believe	believe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	Qur'an	Qur'an	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
30	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod:poss	_	_
31	's	's	PART	POS	_	30	case	_	_
32	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	ccomp	_	_
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	32	punct	_	_
34	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
38	reports	report	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	belief	belief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
41	truly	truly	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
42	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
43	mocking	mock	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	38	advcl	_	_
44	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	obj	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
46	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	47	mark	_	_
47	pretending	pretend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	43	conj	_	_
48	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	49	nsubj	_	_
49	shares	share	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	47	ccomp	_	_
50	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	obj	_	_
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | you |  |  |  |  | about any faith | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about faith=Topic |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **believe** | present | faith's followers |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **believe** *in a quote* | present | Christians |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **rise** *in a quote* | past | Jesus |  |  | the dead |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from dead=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **believe** *in a quote* | present | Muslims |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the Qur'an | God's word |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **report** | present | a fair answer | a belief |  |  |  |  | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent belief=Patient |
| 9 | **mock** | gerund | a fair answer *not said here* | faith |  |  |  | truly *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 10 | **pretend** | gerund | a fair answer *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 11 | **share** | present | everyone | faith |  |  |  |  | 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): 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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