--- title: Why some prayers seem unanswered is a hard question that Christians… — What Christians believe: prayer, forgiveness, gr… · tree and pragmatics description: Why some prayers seem unanswered is a hard question that Christians still discuss. Who acts: prayers, Christians. 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 pragmati --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/22-prayer-forgiveness-grace-and-heaven/9/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/) / [What Christians believe: prayer, forgi…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/22-prayer-forgiveness-grace-and-heaven/) / 9 # What Christians believe: prayer, forgiveness, grace and heaven, sentence 9 Why some prayers seem unanswered is a hard question that Christians still discuss. **Who acts:** prayers, Christians · **What happens:** seem, be, discuss · **To what, where:** hard question · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (prayers, Christians), 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:9 # text = Why some prayers seem unanswered is a hard question that Christians still discuss. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 2 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 3 det _ _ 3 prayers prayer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 seem seem VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 csubj _ _ 5 unanswered unanswer ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 question question NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 10 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 13 obj _ _ 11 Christians Christian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 12 still still ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 discuss discuss VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 14 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed hedge=0 | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **seem** | present | some prayers | | | | | unanswer *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **be** *speech: other* | present | | a hard question | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **discuss** *speech: other* | present | Christians | a hard question | | | still | | vn chit\_chat-37.6-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Topic | 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:9`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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. 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