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title: How literally to read each part of the Bible is disputed among Chris… — What Christians believe: God, Jesus and the Holy… · tree and pragmatics
description: How literally to read each part of the Bible is disputed among Christians. A sentence of the lesson «What Christians believe: God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# What Christians believe: God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit, sentence 17

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How literally to read each part of the Bible is disputed among Christians.

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**What happens:** read, dispute · **To what, where:** part

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This is a sentence of the lesson «What Christians believe: God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit» 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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:021-god-jesus-and-the-holy-spirit.lesson:17
# text = How literally to read each part of the Bible is disputed among Christians.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 021-god-jesus-and-the-holy-spirit.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, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:advmod
2	literally	literally	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	csubj:pass	_	_
5	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Bible	Bible	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	disputed	dispute	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	among	among	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Christians	Christian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **read** | to-infinitive |  | each part of the Bible |  |  |  | literally *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Topic |
| 2 | **dispute** | present · passive |  |  |  |  |  | among Christians | vn battle-36.4 «NP V» |

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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:021-god-jesus-and-the-holy-spirit.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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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