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title: Prayer can include thanks, saying sorry, asking for others and askin… — What Christians believe: prayer, forgiveness, gr… · tree and pragmatics
description: Prayer can include thanks, saying sorry, asking for others and asking for ourselves. Who acts: 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 of every
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# What Christians believe: prayer, forgiveness, grace and heaven, sentence 7

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Prayer can include thanks, saying sorry, asking for others and asking for ourselves.

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**Who acts:** Prayer · **What happens:** include, say, ask · **To what, where:** thanks, sorry · **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 (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:7
# text = Prayer can include thanks, saying sorry, asking for others and asking for ourselves.
# 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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Prayer	prayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	include	include	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	thanks	thanks	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	3	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
7	sorry	sorry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	asking	ask	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	asking	ask	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	conj	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	13	obl	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **include** | can | Prayer | thanks |  |  |  |  | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thanks=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Prayer *not said here* | sorry |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sorry=Topic |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | Prayer *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for others | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | Prayer *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for ourselves | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:7`.

**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, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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