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title: Jesus taught his friends to call God «Father», even «Abba», a warm f… — What Christians believe: God, Jesus and the Holy… · tree and pragmatics
description: Jesus taught his friends to call God «Father», even «Abba», a warm family word, so prayer is like talking to a perfect parent. Who acts: Jesus, Abba, prayer. 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
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# What Christians believe: God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit, sentence 2

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Jesus taught his friends to call God «Father», even «Abba», a warm family word, so prayer is like talking to a perfect parent.

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**Who acts:** Jesus, Abba, prayer · **What happens:** teach, call, talk · **To what, where:** Abba, friends, God · **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 (Jesus, Abba, prayer), 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:2
# text = Jesus taught his friends to call God «Father», even «Abba», a warm family word, so prayer is like talking to a perfect parent.
# 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	Jesus	Jesus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	taught	teach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
7	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:compound
8	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Father	Father	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	even	even	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
14	Abba	abba	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
15	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
23	prayer	prayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
26	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	perfect	perfect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **teach** *speech: other* | past | Jesus | Abba and a warm family word | Jesus's friends |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **call** | to-infinitive | Abba and a warm family word *not said here* | God |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent god=Theme father=Result |
| 3 | **talk** | present · progressive | prayer |  |  |  |  | to a perfect parent | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to parent=Co-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:021-god-jesus-and-the-holy-spirit.lesson:2`.

**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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