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title: Some Christians read the flood as a worldwide event, others as a loc… — Noah and the Tower of Babel · tree and pragmatics
description: Some Christians read the flood as a worldwide event, others as a local flood or a teaching story (disputed). Who acts: Christians. A sentence of the lesson «Noah and the Tower of Babel» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Noah and the Tower of Babel, sentence 13

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Some Christians read the flood as a worldwide event, others as a local flood or a teaching story (disputed).

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**Who acts:** Christians · **What happens:** read, dispute · **To what, where:** flood, teaching story

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Noah and the Tower of Babel» 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:003-noah-and-the-tower-of-babel.lesson:13
# text = Some Christians read the flood as a worldwide event, others as a local flood or a teaching story (disputed).
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 003-noah-and-the-tower-of-babel.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	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	Christians	Christian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	read	read	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	flood	flood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	worldwide	worldwide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	event	event	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	flood	flood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	teaching	teaching	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
20	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	21	punct	_	_
21	disputed	dispute	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
22	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	21	punct	_	_
23	.	.	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 | **read** | past | some Christians | the flood |  |  |  | as a worldwide event and others; as a local flood or a teaching story | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer flood=Stimulus as event=Attribute |
| 2 | **dispute** | participle |  | a teaching story *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4 «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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**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.

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