--- title: Christians disagree about whether the flood covered the whole world,… — Noah and the Tower of Babel · tree and pragmatics description: Christians disagree about whether the flood covered the whole world, but they agree on its lesson: God takes wrongdoing seriously, rescues those who trust him and keeps his promises. Who acts: Christians, flood, God. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Christians, flood, God), 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:4 # text = Christians disagree about whether the flood covered the whole world, but they agree on its lesson: God takes wrongdoing seriously, rescues those who trust him and keeps his promises. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Christians Christian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 disagree disagree VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 about about SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 4 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 flood flood NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 covered cover VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:ccomp 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 but but CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 agree agree VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 15 on on ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 lesson lesson NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 : : PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 19 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 21 wrongdoing wrongdoing NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 22 seriously seriously ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:advmod 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 rescues rescue VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 25 those that PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 24 obj _ _ 26 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 27 nsubj _ _ 27 trust trust VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ _ 28 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 31 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 promises promise NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **disagree** | present | Christians | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **cover** | past | the flood | the whole world | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme world=Destination | | 3 | **agree** *speech: agree* | present | Christians *= christian* | | | | | on flood's lesson | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent on lesson=Topic | | 4 | **take** | present | God | wrongdoing | | | | seriously *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wrongdoing=Theme | | 5 | **rescue** | present | God *not said here* | those | | | | | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme | | 6 | **trust** | present | | God | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 7 | **keep** | present | God *not said here* | God's promises | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme | | 8 | **promise** | | God | | | | | | nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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:003-noah-and-the-tower-of-babel.lesson:4`. **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, R7-rel-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/). - ← previous: [Noah and the Tower of Babel, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/3-noah-and-the-tower-of-babel/3/) - next →: [Noah and the Tower of Babel, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/3-noah-and-the-tower-of-babel/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/3-noah-and-the-tower-of-babel/)