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title: Many faiths teach welcoming the stranger; how countries should respo… — Rights, duties and community dilemmas · tree and pragmatics
description: Many faiths teach welcoming the stranger; how countries should respond to refugees is a disputed question. Who acts: Many faiths, countries. A sentence of the lesson «Rights, duties and community dilemmas» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Rights, duties and community dilemmas, sentence 13

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Many faiths teach welcoming the stranger; how countries should respond to refugees is a disputed question.

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**Who acts:** Many faiths, countries · **What happens:** teach, welcome, respond, dispute, be · **To what, where:** stranger, disputed question · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Rights, duties and community dilemmas» 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 (Many faiths, countries), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:049-rights-duties-and-community.lesson:13
# text = Many faiths teach welcoming the stranger; how countries should respond to refugees is a disputed question.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 049-rights-duties-and-community.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	faiths	faith	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	teach	teach	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	welcoming	welcome	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
9	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
10	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	respond	respond	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	csubj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	refugees	refugee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	disputed	dispute	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
17	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **teach** *speech: other* | present | Many faiths |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **welcome** | gerund | Many faiths *not said here* | the stranger |  |  |  |  | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stranger=Theme |
| 3 | **respond** *speech: other* | should | countries |  |  |  |  | to refugees | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to refugee=Theme |
| 4 | **dispute** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **be** *speech: other* | present |  | a disputed question |  |  |  |  | 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:049-rights-duties-and-community.lesson:13`.

**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): R8-pos-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/).

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