--- title: They believe God hears every prayer, but the answer may be yes, no o… — What Christians believe: prayer, forgiveness, gr… · tree and pragmatics description: They believe God hears every prayer, but the answer may be yes, no or wait, the way a loving parent does not hand over everything a child asks for; prayer is a friendship, not a vending machine. Who acts: Christians, God, loving parent, child. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Christians, God, loving parent, child), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:022-prayer-forgiveness-grace-and-heaven.lesson:1 # text = They believe God hears every prayer, but the answer may be yes, no or wait, the way a loving parent does not hand over everything a child asks for; prayer is a friendship, not a vending machine. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 022-prayer-forgiveness-grace-and-heaven.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 believe believe VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 hears hear VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ 5 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 6 det _ _ 6 prayer prayer NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 but but CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ 12 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 13 cop _ _ 13 yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 11 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=11:punct 15 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 11 conj _ _ 16 or or CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl:unmarked _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 loving loving ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 parent parent NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 24 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 25 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 26 hand hand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 acl:relcl _ _ 27 over over ADP IN _ 28 compound:prt _ _ 28 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 26 obj _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 acl:relcl _ _ 32 for for ADP IN _ 31 obl _ _ 33 ; ; PUNCT : _ 37 punct _ _ 34 prayer prayer NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 35 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 cop _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 friendship friendship NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ _ 38 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 39 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 42 advmod _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 41 vending vend NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=42:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger 42 machine machine NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 conj _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **believe** | present | Christians *= christian* | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **hear** | present | God | every prayer | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer prayer=Stimulus | | 3 | **wait** | infinitive | Christians *= christian* *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **not** **hand over** | present · do-support | a loving parent | everything | | | | | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Theme | | 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | a child | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is a** | present | prayer | a friendship and a vending machine | | | | | tree rules | 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. **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:022-prayer-forgiveness-grace-and-heaven.lesson:1`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×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. 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