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# What Christians believe: God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit, sentence 5

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For a child today this means that God is not far away or angry by default: the Christian picture is of a God who is love and who wants a friendship with every person.

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**Who acts:** this, God, Christian picture, love · **What happens:** mean, not be, be, want · **To what, where:** love, friendship · **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 (this, God, Christian picture, love), 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:5
# text = For a child today this means that God is not far away or angry by default: the Christian picture is of a God who is love and who wants a friendship with every person.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obl:unmarked
5	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj	_	_
6	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
8	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
11	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
12	away	away	ADV	RB	_	6	ccomp	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=12:cc
14	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	default	default	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
25	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	acl:relcl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=27:cc
29	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
30	wants	want	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	friendship	friendship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	35	det	_	_
35	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | this |  |  |  |  | for a child  today | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot for child=Attribute |
| 2 | **not** **is** | present | God |  |  |  |  | by default; away, far *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | God *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | the Christian picture |  |  |  |  | of a God | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** | present | a God | love |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **want** | present | love | a friendship |  |  |  | with every person | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot friendship=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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**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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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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