--- title: Sin means turning away from God and doing wrong in thought, word or… — What Christians believe: prayer, forgiveness, gr… · tree and pragmatics description: Sin means turning away from God and doing wrong in thought, word or deed; Christians say everyone does it sometimes, and that God forgives anyone who is truly sorry because of Jesus. Who acts: Sin, Christians, everyone, God. 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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 (Sin, Christians, everyone, God), 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:2 # text = Sin means turning away from God and doing wrong in thought, word or deed; Christians say everyone does it sometimes, and that God forgives anyone who is truly sorry because of Jesus. # 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): R1-cc-next ×2, R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Sin sin NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 turning turn VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:ccomp 4 away away ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 from from ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=3:cc 8 doing do VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 conj _ _ 9 wrong wrong ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 thought thought NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 14 or or CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=13:cc 15 deed deed NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=13:conj 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 17 Christians Christian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 18 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 19 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 20 nsubj _ _ 20 does do VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 ccomp _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 20 advmod _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 that that SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 26 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 forgives forgive VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 28 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 27 obj _ _ 29 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 32 nsubj _ _ 30 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 31 truly truly ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 sorry sorry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 acl:relcl _ _ 33 because because ADP IN ExtPos=ADP 35 case _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 33 fixed _ _ 35 Jesus Jesus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 36 . . 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 | **mean** | present | Sin | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **turn away** *not said to happen* | gerund | Sin *not said here* | | | | | from God; away *property* | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from god=Source | | 3 | **do** | gerund | Sin *not said here* | | | thought and word or deed | | wrong *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Christians | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **do** | present | everyone | Sin | | | | sometimes *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | | 6 | **forgive** | present | God | anyone | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Theme | | 7 | **is** | present | | | | | | because Jesus; sorry, truly *property* | 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: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): R1-cc-next ×2, R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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