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title: Humanists believe this life is the only one and that people can be g… — Buddhism, humanism and respect for every belief · tree and pragmatics
description: Humanists believe this life is the only one and that people can be good using reason and compassion (caring about other people's pain), without God. Who acts: Humanists, life, people, other people. A sentence of the lesson «Buddhism, humanism and respect for every belief» of the religion ethics cour
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# Buddhism, humanism and respect for every belief, sentence 10

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Humanists believe this life is the only one and that people can be good using reason and compassion (caring about other people's pain), without God.

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**Who acts:** Humanists, life, people, other people · **What happens:** believe, be, use, care, pain · **To what, where:** only one, reason · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Buddhism, humanism and respect for every belief» 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 (Humanists, life, people, other people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:033-buddhism-humanism-and-respect.lesson:10
# text = Humanists believe this life is the only one and that people can be good using reason and compassion (caring about other people's pain), without God.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 033-buddhism-humanism-and-respect.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	Humanists	humanist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	believe	believe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	cop	_	_
14	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
15	using	use	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
16	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	compassion	compassion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	20	punct	_	_
20	caring	care	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	parataxis	_	_
21	about	about	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	's	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
26	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	20	punct	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	without	without	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **believe** | present | Humanists |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is a** | present | this life | the only one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | can | people |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **use** | gerund | people *not said here* | reason and compassion |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Patient |
| 5 | **care** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | about other people's pain | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about pain=Stimulus |
| 6 | **pain** |  | other people |  |  |  |  |  | nom pain «state transitive»: poss=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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