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title: Whether miracles really happen is something people disagree about; C… — The miracles of Jesus · tree and pragmatics
description: Whether miracles really happen is something people disagree about; Christians believe God can act in the world, and the olympiad way is to talk about it with reasons and respect. Who acts: miracles, people, Christians, God. A sentence of the lesson «The miracles of Jesus» of the religion ethics cour
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# The miracles of Jesus, sentence 5

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Whether miracles really happen is something people disagree about; Christians believe God can act in the world, and the olympiad way is to talk about it with reasons and respect.

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**Who acts:** miracles, people, Christians, God, olympiad way · **What happens:** happen, be, disagree, believe, act · **To what, where:** something, world · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The miracles of Jesus» 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 (miracles, people, Christians, God), 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:5
# text = Whether miracles really happen is something people disagree about; Christians believe God can act in the world, and the olympiad way is to talk about it with reasons and respect.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	miracles	miracle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	really	really	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	happen	happen	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	csubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	0	root	_	_
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	disagree	disagree	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	about	about	ADP	IN	_	8	obl	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	Christians	Christian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
12	believe	believe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
13	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	act	act	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	olympiad	olympiad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	talk	talk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
27	about	about	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	reasons	reason	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	respect	respect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **happen** | present | miracles |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | something |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **disagree** | present | people |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **believe** | present | Christians |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **act** | can | God |  |  | the world |  |  | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is** | present | the olympiad way |  |  |  |  | about world; with reasons and respect; talk *property* | 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): 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.

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