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description: Christians believe everyone sins sometimes, so everyone needs forgiveness. Who acts: Christians, everyone. A sentence of the lesson «What Christians believe: prayer, forgiveness, grace and heaven» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# What Christians believe: prayer, forgiveness, grace and heaven, sentence 11

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Christians believe everyone sins sometimes, so everyone needs forgiveness.

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**Who acts:** Christians, everyone · **What happens:** believe, sin, need · **To what, where:** forgiveness · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «What Christians believe: prayer, forgiveness, grace and heaven» 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 (Christians, everyone), 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:11
# text = Christians believe everyone sins sometimes, so everyone needs forgiveness.
# 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): no change
1	Christians	Christian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	believe	believe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sins	sin	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
5	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	4	advmod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	9	nsubj	_	_
9	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	forgiveness	forgiveness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **believe** | present | Christians |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **sin** | present | everyone |  |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn rebel-71.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **need** | present | everyone | forgiveness |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot forgiveness=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:022-prayer-forgiveness-grace-and-heaven.lesson:11`.

**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): no change. **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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