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title: Christians believe prayer is talking and listening to God, alone or… — What Christians believe: prayer, forgiveness, gr… · tree and pragmatics
description: Christians believe prayer is talking and listening to God, alone or with others. Who acts: Christians, prayer. 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 
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# What Christians believe: prayer, forgiveness, grace and heaven, sentence 6

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Christians believe prayer is talking and listening to God, alone or with others.

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**Who acts:** Christians, prayer · **What happens:** believe, talk, listen · **To what, where:** God · **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, prayer), 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:6
# text = Christians believe prayer is talking and listening to God, alone or with others.
# 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	prayer	prayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	ccomp	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	listening	listen	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
15	.	.	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 S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **talk** | present · progressive | prayer |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **listen** | gerund | prayer *not said here* |  | God |  |  | alone *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to god=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): 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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