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title: Christians believe the Holy Spirit grows good character in people, l… — Paul, his letters and the way of love · tree and pragmatics
description: Christians believe the Holy Spirit grows good character in people, like fruit on a tree. Who acts: Christians, Holy Spirit. 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 cla
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# Paul, his letters and the way of love, sentence 21

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Christians believe the Holy Spirit grows good character in people, like fruit on a tree.

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**Who acts:** Christians, Holy Spirit · **What happens:** believe, grow · **To what, where:** good character · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Christians, Holy Spirit), 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:21
# text = Christians believe the Holy Spirit grows good character in people, like fruit on a tree.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
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	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Holy	Holy	PROPN	NNP	_	5	flat	_	_
5	Spirit	Spirit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
7	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	character	character	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **believe** | present | Christians |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **grow** | present | the Holy Spirit | good character and fruit on a tree |  |  |  | in people | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location character=Theme |

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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:21`.

**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 ×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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