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title: Christians see Jesus' death for others as the greatest example of se… — Lifeboat choices · tree and pragmatics
description: Christians see Jesus' death for others as the greatest example of self-sacrifice. Who acts: Christians, Jesus. A sentence of the lesson «Lifeboat choices» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Lifeboat choices, sentence 15

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Christians see Jesus' death for others as the greatest example of self-sacrifice.

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**Who acts:** Christians, Jesus · **What happens:** see, die, exemplify · **To what, where:** death, self sacrifice

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Lifeboat choices» 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, Jesus), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:048-lifeboat-choices.lesson:15
# text = Christians see Jesus' death for others as the greatest example of self-sacrifice.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 048-lifeboat-choices.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
1	Christians	Christian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Jesus	Jesus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	'	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	greatest	great	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	amod	_	_
11	example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	self	self	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	_
15	sacrifice	sacrifice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present | Christians | Jesus's death |  |  |  | for others; as the greatest example of self sacrifice | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer death=Stimulus as example=Attribute |
| 2 | **die** |  | Jesus |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 3 | **exemplify** |  |  | self sacrifice |  |  |  |  | nom example «cognition transitive»: of=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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**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:048-lifeboat-choices.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): R5-strong ×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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