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description: Hindus believe that what we do has consequences (karma) and that souls are born again and again until they reach freedom (moksha); many also follow ahimsa, non-violence to all living things. Who acts: Hindus, we, many. A sentence of the lesson «Hinduism and Sikhism» of the religion ethics course of 
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# Hinduism and Sikhism, sentence 1

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Hindus believe that what we do has consequences (karma) and that souls are born again and again until they reach freedom (moksha); many also follow ahimsa, non-violence to all living things.

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**Who acts:** Hindus, we, many · **What happens:** believe, do, have, bear, reach, follow · **To what, where:** consequences, souls, freedom, ahimsa, living things · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Hinduism and Sikhism» 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 (Hindus, we, many), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:032-hinduism-and-sikhism.lesson:1
# text = Hindus believe that what we do has consequences (karma) and that souls are born again and again until they reach freedom (moksha); many also follow ahimsa, non-violence to all living things.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 032-hinduism-and-sikhism.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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Hindus	Hindu	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	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
5	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	csubj	_	_
7	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
8	consequences	consequence	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	10	punct	_	_
10	karma	karma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:parataxis
11	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	10	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	souls	soul	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
17	again	again	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	again	again	ADV	RB	_	17	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:conj
20	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	reach	reach	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
23	freedom	freedom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
24	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	25	punct	_	_
25	moksha	moksha	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
26	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	25	punct	_	_
27	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
28	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	nsubj	_	_
29	also	also	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	follow	follow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
31	ahimsa	ahimsa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	non-violence	non-violence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	37	det	_	_
36	living	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	37	amod	_	_
37	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	_
38	.	.	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 | Hindus |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **do** | present | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 3 | **have** | present |  | consequences |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent consequence=Patient |
| 4 | **bear** | present · passive |  | souls |  |  | again |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **reach** | present | Hindus *= hindu* | freedom |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent freedom=Theme |
| 6 | **follow** | present | many | ahimsa and non-violence |  | all living things |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ahimsa=Theme to thing=Trajectory |
| 7 | **live** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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**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 ×2, 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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