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title: For forty days in the desert Jesus was tempted by the devil and said… — Jesus' life and teaching · tree and pragmatics
description: For forty days in the desert Jesus was tempted by the devil and said no each time, using Scripture; Lent remembers these forty days. Who acts: devil, Lent. 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 prag
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# Jesus' life and teaching, sentence 6

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For forty days in the desert Jesus was tempted by the devil and said no each time, using Scripture; Lent remembers these forty days.

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**Who acts:** devil, Lent · **What happens:** tempt, say, use, remember · **To what, where:** Jesus, Scripture · **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 (devil, Lent), 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:6
# text = For forty days in the desert Jesus was tempted by the devil and said no each time, using Scripture; Lent remembers these forty days.
# 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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	desert	desert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:obl
7	Jesus	Jesus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	tempted	tempt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	devil	devil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:agent	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
15	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	17	det	_	_
16	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	using	use	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:acl
20	Scripture	scripture	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
22	Lent	Lent	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	remembers	remember	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj
24	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
25	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **tempt** | past · passive | the devil | Jesus |  |  | day |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the devil *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **use** | gerund | the devil *not said here* | Scripture |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scripture=Patient |
| 4 | **remember** | present | Lent |  |  |  | day |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |

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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:6`.

**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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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