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title: The Four Noble Truths say: life has suffering, suffering comes from… — Buddhism, humanism and respect for every belief · tree and pragmatics
description: The Four Noble Truths say: life has suffering, suffering comes from craving (always wanting more), suffering can end, and the Eightfold Path leads there. Who acts: Four Noble Truths, life, suffering, craving. A sentence of the lesson «Buddhism, humanism and respect for every belief» of the religion 
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# Buddhism, humanism and respect for every belief, sentence 8

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The Four Noble Truths say: life has suffering, suffering comes from craving (always wanting more), suffering can end, and the Eightfold Path leads there.

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**Who acts:** Four Noble Truths, life, suffering, craving, Eightfold Path · **What happens:** say, have, come, want, end, lead · **To what, where:** suffering, craving, more · **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 (Four Noble Truths, life, suffering, craving), 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:8
# text = The Four Noble Truths say: life has suffering, suffering comes from craving (always wanting more), suffering can end, and the Eightfold Path leads there.
# 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): R5-strong ×5, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
3	Noble	Noble	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Truths	truth	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
5	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
9	suffering	suffer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	suffering	suffer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:conj
12	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	craving	craving	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	17	punct	_	_
16	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	17	advmod	_	_
17	wanting	want	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	acl	_	_
18	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp
19	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct
21	suffering	suffer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	end	end	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:det
27	Eightfold	eightfold	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
28	Path	path	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=29:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
29	leads	lead	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
30	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	29	advmod	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the Four Noble Truths |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **have** | present | life | suffering |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent suffer=Patient |
| 3 | **come** | present | suffering |  |  | craving |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from craving=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **want** | gerund | craving *not said here* | more |  |  |  | always *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot more=Theme |
| 5 | **end** | can | suffering |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 6 | **lead** | present | the Eightfold Path |  |  | there |  |  | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |

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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 ×5, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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