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title: The first Christians shared their belongings so that no one among th… — Sharing and fairness · tree and pragmatics
description: The first Christians shared their belongings so that no one among them was in need (Acts 4:32-35). Who acts: first Christians, one. A sentence of the lesson «Sharing and fairness» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Sharing and fairness, sentence 15

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The first Christians shared their belongings so that no one among them was in need (Acts 4:32-35).

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**Who acts:** first Christians, one · **What happens:** share, be · **To what, where:** belongings, need

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Sharing and fairness» 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 (first Christians, one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:043-sharing-and-fairness.lesson:15
# text = The first Christians shared their belongings so that no one among them was in need (Acts 4:32-35).
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 043-sharing-and-fairness.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	3	det	_	_
2	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	amod	_	_
3	Christians	Christian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	shared	share	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	belongings	belonging	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	fixed	_	_
9	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	det	_	_
10	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
11	among	among	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nmod	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	need	need	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	advcl	_	_
16	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	17	punct	_	_
17	Acts	act	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	appos	_	_
18	4:32-35	4:32-35	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	flat	_	_
19	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	17	punct	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **share** | past | the first Christians | Christians's belongings |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | no one among Christians |  |  | need |  |  | tree rules |

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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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**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:043-sharing-and-fairness.lesson:15`.

**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/).

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