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title: Freedom of religion is the right to believe, practise, change or hav… — Buddhism, humanism and respect for every belief · tree and pragmatics
description: Freedom of religion is the right to believe, practise, change or have no religion; it is protected in human rights law. Who acts: Freedom. A sentence of the lesson «Buddhism, humanism and respect for every belief» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and th
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# Buddhism, humanism and respect for every belief, sentence 12

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Freedom of religion is the right to believe, practise, change or have no religion; it is protected in human rights law.

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**Who acts:** Freedom · **What happens:** be, believe, practise, change, have, protect · **To what, where:** right, religion, freedom, rights law

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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 (Freedom), 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:12
# text = Freedom of religion is the right to believe, practise, change or have no religion; it is protected in human rights law.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Freedom	freedom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	religion	religion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	right	right	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	believe	believe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	practise	practise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=10:conj
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=10:conj
15	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	16	det	_	_
16	religion	religion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	protected	protect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	rights	right	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	compound	_	_
24	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	.	.	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 | Freedom of religion | the right |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **believe** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **practise** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **change** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **have** | infinitive |  | no religion |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent religion=Patient |
| 6 | **protect** | present · passive |  | freedom |  | rights law |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary |

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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): R3-conj-first ×2, 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.

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