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title: Jesus ate with tax collectors and sinners and touched people with le… — Jesus' life and teaching · tree and pragmatics
description: Jesus ate with tax collectors and sinners and touched people with leprosy, whom others avoided. Who acts: Jesus, others. A sentence of the lesson «Jesus' life and teaching» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jesus' life and teaching, sentence 13

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Jesus ate with tax collectors and sinners and touched people with leprosy, whom others avoided.

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**Who acts:** Jesus, others · **What happens:** eat, touch, avoid · **To what, where:** people

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Jesus' life and teaching» 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 (Jesus, others), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:013-jesus-life-and-teaching.lesson:13
# text = Jesus ate with tax collectors and sinners and touched people with leprosy, whom others avoided.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 013-jesus-life-and-teaching.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): no change
1	Jesus	Jesus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	tax	tax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	collectors	collector	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	sinners	sinner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	touched	touch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	leprosy	leprosy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	obj	_	_
15	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	avoided	avoid	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
17	.	.	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 | **eat** | past | Jesus |  |  |  |  | with tax collectors and sinners | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **touch** | past | Jesus *not said here* | people |  |  |  | with leprosy | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent people=Experiencer with leprosy=Instrument |
| 3 | **avoid** | past | others | people |  |  |  |  | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent whom=Location |

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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:013-jesus-life-and-teaching.lesson:13`.

**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): no change. **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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