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title: A «Damascus road» moment means a complete change of mind. — Paul, his letters and the way of love · tree and pragmatics
description: A «Damascus road» moment means a complete change of mind. Who acts: road moment, mind. A sentence of the lesson «Paul, his letters and the way of love» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Paul, his letters and the way of love, sentence 11

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A «Damascus road» moment means a complete change of mind.

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**Who acts:** road moment, mind · **What happens:** mean, change · **To what, where:** complete change

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Paul, his letters and the way of love» 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 (road moment, mind), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:020-paul-his-letters-and-the-way-of-love.lesson:11
# text = A «Damascus road» moment means a complete change of mind.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 020-paul-his-letters-and-the-way-of-love.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): R6-punct-agree ×2
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
2	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct
3	Damascus	Damascus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
5	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct
6	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	complete	complete	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | a road moment | a complete change of mind |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent change=Topic |
| 2 | **change** |  | mind |  |  |  |  |  | nom change «event intransitive»: of=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:020-paul-his-letters-and-the-way-of-love.lesson:11`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×2. **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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