--- title: The Bible (1 Peter 3:15) asks Christians to be ready to give a reaso… — How to argue: reasons and evidence · tree and pragmatics description: The Bible (1 Peter 3:15) asks Christians to be ready to give a reason for their hope, with gentleness and respect. Who acts: Bible, reasons. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bible, reasons), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:039-how-to-argue-reasons-and-evidence.lesson:19 # text = The Bible (1 Peter 3:15) asks Christians to be ready to give a reason for their hope, with gentleness and respect. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 039-how-to-argue-reasons-and-evidence.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 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Bible Bible PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 3 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 5 punct _ _ 4 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 Peter Peter PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 6 3:15 3:15 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 flat _ _ 7 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 5 punct _ _ 8 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 Christians Christian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 11 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 12 cop _ _ 12 ready ready ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 xcomp _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 reason reason NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 for for ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 hope hope NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 with with ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 gentleness gentleness NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 respect respect NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | the Bible | | Christians | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent christian=Recipient | | 2 | **is** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Bible *not said here* | | | | | ready *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **give** | to-infinitive | the Bible *not said here* | a reason | | | | for reasons's hope; with gentleness and respect | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent reason=Theme for hope=Asset | | 4 | **hope** | | reasons *= reason* | | | | | | nom hope «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent | 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. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:religion-ethics:039-how-to-argue-reasons-and-evidence.lesson:19`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [How to argue: reasons and evidence, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/39-how-to-argue-reasons-and-evidence/18/) - next →: [How to argue: counter-arguments and re…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/40-how-to-argue-counter-arguments-and-respect/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/39-how-to-argue-reasons-and-evidence/)