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title: A few groups that call themselves Christian do not accept the Trinity. — What Christians believe: God, Jesus and the Holy… · tree and pragmatics
description: A few groups that call themselves Christian do not accept the Trinity. Who acts: few groups. 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 19

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A few groups that call themselves Christian do not accept the Trinity.

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**Who acts:** few groups · **What happens:** call, not accept · **To what, where:** groups, Trinity · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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: who acts (few groups), 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:19
# text = A few groups that call themselves Christian do not accept the Trinity.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×2
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	groups	group	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	obj	_	_
7	Christian	Christian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	xcomp	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:xcomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
8	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	accept	accept	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Trinity	trinity	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **call** | present | a few groups | groups *= group* |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent themselves=Recipient |
| 2 | **not** **accept** | present · do-support | a few groups | the Trinity |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trinity=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:021-god-jesus-and-the-holy-spirit.lesson:19`.

**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 ×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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