--- title: Christians believe God gives gifts to share; the first Christians sh… — Sharing and fairness · tree and pragmatics description: Christians believe God gives gifts to share; the first Christians shared what they had so that no one was in need (Acts 4:32-35), and Jesus praised a poor widow who gave two small coins. Who acts: Christians, God, first Christians, one. 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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 (Christians, God, 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:3 # text = Christians believe God gives gifts to share; the first Christians shared what they had so that no one was in need (Acts 4:32-35), and Jesus praised a poor widow who gave two small coins. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Christians Christian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 believe believe VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 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 0 root _ _ 5 gifts gift NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 share share VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 acl _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 11 amod _ _ 11 Christians Christian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 12 shared share VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 13 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 15 obj _ _ 14 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 ccomp _ _ 16 so so SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 17 that that SCONJ IN _ 16 fixed _ _ 18 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 19 det _ _ 19 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 20 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 need need NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 advcl _ _ 23 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 24 punct _ _ 24 Acts act NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 appos _ _ 25 4:32-35 4:32-35 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 24 flat _ _ 26 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 24 punct _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 Jesus Jesus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 praised praise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 widow widow NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 34 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 35 nsubj _ _ 35 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 acl:relcl _ _ 36 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 38 nummod _ _ 37 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 coins coin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obj _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | 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 | | 2 | **give** | present | God | gifts | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=Theme | | 3 | **share** | to-infinitive | God *not said here* | gifts *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **share** | past | the first Christians | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **have** | past | Christians *= christian* | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient | | 6 | **is** | past | no one | | | need | | | tree rules | | 7 | **praise** | past | Jesus | a poor widow | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent widow=Theme | | 8 | **give** | past | a poor widow | two small coins | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coin=Theme | 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:043-sharing-and-fairness.lesson:3`. **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): 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/). - ← previous: [Sharing and fairness, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/43-sharing-and-fairness/2/) - next →: [Sharing and fairness, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/43-sharing-and-fairness/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/43-sharing-and-fairness/)