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title: Christians believe in forgiveness, and that justice and mercy can wo… — Rights, duties and community dilemmas · tree and pragmatics
description: Christians believe in forgiveness, and that justice and mercy can work together. Who acts: Christians, justice. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Rights, duties and community dilemmas, sentence 15

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Christians believe in forgiveness, and that justice and mercy can work together.

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**Who acts:** Christians, justice · **What happens:** believe, work together · **To what, where:** forgiveness

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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 (Christians, justice), 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:15
# text = Christians believe in forgiveness, and that justice and mercy can work together.
# 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): no change
1	Christians	Christian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	believe	believe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	forgiveness	forgiveness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
8	justice	justice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	mercy	mercy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
13	together	together	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **believe** | present | Christians |  |  | forgiveness |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **work together** | can | justice and mercy |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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**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.

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