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title: Christians believe God gives people gifts and tasks and asks them to… — Virtues: courage, responsibility, rights and dut… · tree and pragmatics
description: Christians believe God gives people gifts and tasks and asks them to use them well. Who acts: Christians, God. A sentence of the lesson «Virtues: courage, responsibility, rights and duties» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Virtues: courage, responsibility, rights and duties, sentence 18

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Christians believe God gives people gifts and tasks and asks them to use them well.

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**Who acts:** Christians, God · **What happens:** believe, give, ask, use · **To what, where:** gifts, people · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Virtues: courage, responsibility, rights and duties» 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, God), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:035-courage-responsibility-rights-and-duties.lesson:18
# text = Christians believe God gives people gifts and tasks and asks them to use them well.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 035-courage-responsibility-rights-and-duties.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, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Christians	Christian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	believe	believe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:parataxis
3	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	iobj	_	_
6	gifts	gift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	tasks	task	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4: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 |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **give** | present | God | gifts and tasks | people |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent people=Recipient gift=Theme |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | God *not said here* |  | people |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **use** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | God *not said here* | people |  |  |  | well *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |

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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, R6-punct-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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