--- title: Christians see Jesus giving his life for others as the greatest exam… — Lifeboat choices · tree and pragmatics description: Christians see Jesus giving his life for others as the greatest example of self-sacrifice; it is admired, but nobody is required to be a hero. 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 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/48-lifeboat-choices/3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/) / [Lifeboat choices](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/48-lifeboat-choices/) / 3 # Lifeboat choices, sentence 3 Christians see Jesus giving his life for others as the greatest example of self-sacrifice; it is admired, but nobody is required to be a hero. **Who acts:** Christians, Jesus · **What happens:** see, give, admire, require, be, exemplify · **To what, where:** life, nobody, hero, self sacrifice 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:3 # text = Christians see Jesus giving his life for others as the greatest example of self-sacrifice; it is admired, but nobody is required to be a hero. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 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 4 nsubj _ _ 4 giving give VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:ccomp 5 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 9 as as ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 greatest great ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 12 amod _ _ 12 example example NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 self self NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 15 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 14 punct _ _ 16 sacrifice sacrifice NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj:pass _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux:pass _ _ 20 admired admire VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 but but CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 25 nsubj:pass _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux:pass _ _ 25 required require VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 conj _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 27 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 29 cop _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 hero hero NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 xcomp _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **see** | present | Christians | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **give** | gerund | Jesus | Jesus's life | | | | for others as the greatest example of self sacrifice | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent life=Theme for other=Asset | | 3 | **admire** | present · passive | | life | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | | 4 | **require** | present · passive | | nobody | | | | | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Precondition | | 5 | **is a** | to-infinitive | | a hero | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **exemplify** | | | self sacrifice | | | | | nom example «cognition transitive»: of=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:048-lifeboat-choices.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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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: [Lifeboat choices, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/48-lifeboat-choices/2/) - next →: [Lifeboat choices, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/48-lifeboat-choices/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/48-lifeboat-choices/)