--- title: For a child today: faith means trusting without knowing every step,… — Abraham, Isaac and Jacob · tree and pragmatics description: For a child today: faith means trusting without knowing every step, welcome strangers kindly, cheating breaks trust, and forgiveness can heal even old family hurts. Who acts: faith, forgiveness. 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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 (faith, forgiveness), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:004-abraham-isaac-and-jacob.lesson:5 # text = For a child today: faith means trusting without knowing every step, welcome strangers kindly, cheating breaks trust, and forgiveness can heal even old family hurts. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 004-abraham-isaac-and-jacob.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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 For for ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 4 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 6 faith faith NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 trusting trust VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 ccomp _ _ 9 without without SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 10 knowing know VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ _ 11 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 12 det _ _ 12 step step NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct 14 welcome welcome ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 strangers stranger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 16 kindly kindly ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advmod 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 cheating cheat VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 19 nsubj _ _ 19 breaks break VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 20 trust trust NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 forgiveness forgiveness NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 24 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 heal heal VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 26 even even ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 28 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 hurts hurt NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | faith | | | | | for a child today | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **trust** | gerund | | welcome strangers | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **know** | gerund | | every step | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer step=Stimulus | | 4 | **cheat** | gerund | | | | | | | vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **break** | present | | trust | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer trust=Patient | | 6 | **heal** | can | forgiveness | old family hurts | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hurt=Patient | 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:004-abraham-isaac-and-jacob.lesson:5`. **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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/4-abraham-isaac-and-jacob/4/) - next →: [Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/4-abraham-isaac-and-jacob/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/4-abraham-isaac-and-jacob/)