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title: For a child today this means: nobody is too small, too bad or too di… — Jesus' life and teaching · tree and pragmatics
description: For a child today this means: nobody is too small, too bad or too different to be welcomed, and saying sorry includes putting things right. Who acts: this, nobody, saying. A sentence of the lesson «Jesus' life and teaching» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency t
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# Jesus' life and teaching, sentence 4

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For a child today this means: nobody is too small, too bad or too different to be welcomed, and saying sorry includes putting things right.

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**Who acts:** this, nobody, saying · **What happens:** mean, be, welcome, say, include, put · **To what, where:** sorry, things · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (this, nobody, saying), 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:4
# text = For a child today this means: nobody is too small, too bad or too different to be welcomed, and saying sorry includes putting things right.
# 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	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod:unmarked	_	_
5	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj	_	_
6	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
8	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	11	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	too	too	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	ccomp	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	too	too	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	too	too	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	welcomed	welcome	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	advcl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	csubj	_	_
24	sorry	sorry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
25	includes	include	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
26	putting	put	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	ccomp	_	_
27	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
28	right	right	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 |  |  |  |  | for a child  today | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot for child=Attribute |
| 2 | **is** | present | nobody |  |  |  |  | small *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | nobody *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | nobody *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **welcome** | to-infinitive · passive | nobody *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP» |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund |  | sorry |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sorry=Topic |
| 7 | **include** | present | saying |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **put** | gerund | saying *not said here* | things |  |  |  | right *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent thing=Goal |

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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): 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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