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title: The Qur'an is the holy book of Islam; Muslims believe it is God's wo… — Islam · tree and pragmatics
description: The Qur'an is the holy book of Islam; Muslims believe it is God's word, and it is recited in Arabic. Who acts: Qur'an, Muslims. A sentence of the lesson «Islam» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Islam, sentence 9

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The Qur'an is the holy book of Islam; Muslims believe it is God's word, and it is recited in Arabic.

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**Who acts:** Qur'an, Muslims · **What happens:** be, believe, recite · **To what, where:** holy book, word, Qur'an, Arabic · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Islam» 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 (Qur'an, Muslims), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:031-islam.lesson:9
# text = The Qur'an is the holy book of Islam; Muslims believe it is God's word, and it is recited in Arabic.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 031-islam.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
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:det
2	Qur'an	Qur'an	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Islam	Islam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	Muslims	Muslim	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	believe	believe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
14	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	ccomp	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	recited	recite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Arabic	Arabic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **is a** | present | the Qur'an | the holy book |  |  |  | of Islam | tree rules |
| 2 | **believe** | present | Muslims |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is a** | present | Qur'an | God's word |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **recite** | present · passive |  | Qur'an |  | Arabic |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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:031-islam.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): R5-strong ×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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