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title: For a child today this means you can start again after doing wrong,… — What Christians believe: prayer, forgiveness, gr… · tree and pragmatics
description: For a child today this means you can start again after doing wrong, and you can give others a fresh start too, without pretending the wrong did not matter. Who acts: this, you, wrong. A sentence of the lesson «What Christians believe: prayer, forgiveness, grace and heaven» of the religion ethics cou
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# What Christians believe: prayer, forgiveness, grace and heaven, sentence 5

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For a child today this means you can start again after doing wrong, and you can give others a fresh start too, without pretending the wrong did not matter.

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**Who acts:** this, you, wrong · **What happens:** mean, start, do, give, pretend, not matter · **To what, where:** wrong, fresh start, others · **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 (this, you, wrong), 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:5
# text = For a child today this means you can start again after doing wrong, and you can give others a fresh start too, without pretending the wrong did not matter.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
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: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	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	start	start	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
10	again	again	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
13	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
19	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	iobj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:obj
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	start	start	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:nmod
23	too	too	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
26	pretending	pretend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	nsubj	_	_
29	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
31	matter	matter	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	26	ccomp	_	_
32	.	.	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 intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **start** | can | you |  |  |  | again |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **do** | gerund | you *not said here* | wrong |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wrong=Eventuality |
| 4 | **give** | can | you | a fresh start | others |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent other=Recipient start=Theme |
| 5 | **pretend** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **matter** | past · do-support | the wrong |  |  |  |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:5`.

**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, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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