--- title: Christians believe God can act in the world; sceptics doubt that mir… — The miracles of Jesus · tree and pragmatics description: Christians believe God can act in the world; sceptics doubt that miracles happen; some Christians read some miracle stories symbolically. Who acts: Christians, God, sceptics, miracles. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Christians, God, sceptics, miracles), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:016-the-miracles-of-jesus.lesson:17 # text = Christians believe God can act in the world; sceptics doubt that miracles happen; some Christians read some miracle stories symbolically. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 016-the-miracles-of-jesus.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 Christians Christian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 believe believe VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 act act VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 ccomp _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 sceptics sceptic NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 11 doubt doubt VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 12 that that SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 13 miracles miracle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 14 happen happen VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 ccomp _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 17 det _ _ 17 Christians Christian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 18 read read VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 19 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 21 det _ _ 20 miracle miracle NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 22 symbolically symbolically ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **believe** | present | Christians | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **act** | can | God | | | the world | | | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **doubt** | present | sceptics | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **happen** | present | miracles | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **read** | present | some Christians | some miracle stories | | | | symbolically *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Topic | 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. **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:016-the-miracles-of-jesus.lesson:17`. **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/). - ← previous: [The miracles of Jesus, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/16-the-miracles-of-jesus/16/) - next →: [The miracles of Jesus, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/16-the-miracles-of-jesus/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/16-the-miracles-of-jesus/)