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title: Christians believe in God, yet freedom of religion means everyone ma… — Buddhism, humanism and respect for every belief · tree and pragmatics
description: Christians believe in God, yet freedom of religion means everyone may believe, practise, change or have no religion without being forced or mocked; respect does not mean agreeing, it means treating people fairly. Who acts: Christians, freedom, everyone, respect. A sentence of the lesson «Buddhism, h
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# Buddhism, humanism and respect for every belief, sentence 3

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Christians believe in God, yet freedom of religion means everyone may believe, practise, change or have no religion without being forced or mocked; respect does not mean agreeing, it means treating people fairly.

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**Who acts:** Christians, freedom, everyone, respect · **What happens:** believe, mean, practise, change, have, force · **To what, where:** religion, people · **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 (Christians, freedom, everyone, respect), 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:3
# text = Christians believe in God, yet freedom of religion means everyone may believe, practise, change or have no religion without being forced or mocked; respect does not mean agreeing, it means treating people fairly.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Christians	Christian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	believe	believe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	freedom	freedom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	religion	religion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	13	nsubj	_	_
12	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	believe	believe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	practise	practise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
20	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	21	det	_	_
21	religion	religion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	forced	force	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	advcl	_	_
25	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	mocked	mock	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	conj	_	_
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
28	respect	respect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
29	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
31	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
32	agreeing	agree	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	31	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:ccomp
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	conj	_	_
36	treating	treat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	35	ccomp	_	_
37	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obj	_	_
38	fairly	fairly	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
39	.	.	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 | Christians |  |  |  |  | in God | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **mean** | present | freedom of religion |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **believe** | may | everyone |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **practise** | infinitive | everyone *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **change** | infinitive | everyone *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **have** | infinitive | everyone *not said here* | no religion |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent religion=Patient |
| 7 | **force** | gerund · passive | everyone *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP» |
| 8 | **mock** | participle | everyone *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **not** **mean** | present · do-support | respect |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 10 | **agree** *speech: agree* *not said to happen* | gerund | respect *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 11 | **mean** | present | respect |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 12 | **treat** | gerund |  |  | people |  |  | fairly *property* | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent people=Recipient |

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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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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