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title: Christians believe time can be a gift as precious as money. — Sunday school, youth groups and charity · tree and pragmatics
description: Christians believe time can be a gift as precious as money. Who acts: Christians, time. A sentence of the lesson «Sunday school, youth groups and charity» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Sunday school, youth groups and charity, sentence 18

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Christians believe time can be a gift as precious as money.

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**Who acts:** Christians, time · **What happens:** believe, be · **To what, where:** gift · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Sunday school, youth groups and charity» 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, time), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:027-sunday-school-youth-groups-and-charity.lesson:18
# text = Christians believe time can be a gift as precious as money.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 027-sunday-school-youth-groups-and-charity.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Christians	Christian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
2	believe	believe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	gift	gift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	_
8	as	as	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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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 that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is a** | can | time | a gift |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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): 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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