--- title: Jesus said not one sparrow falls without God knowing, and that a see… — Why living things die, and the circle of life in… · tree and pragmatics description: Jesus said not one sparrow falls without God knowing, and that a seed must fall into the ground and die to make many seeds. Who acts: Jesus, one sparrow, seed. A sentence of the lesson «Why living things die, and the circle of life in nature» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school wi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/53-why-living-things-die-and-the-circle-of-life/16/) [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/) / [Why living things die, and the circle…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/53-why-living-things-die-and-the-circle-of-life/) / 16 # Why living things die, and the circle of life in nature, sentence 16 Jesus said not one sparrow falls without God knowing, and that a seed must fall into the ground and die to make many seeds. **Who acts:** Jesus, one sparrow, seed · **What happens:** say, fall, know, die, make · **To what, where:** ground, many seeds · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Why living things die, and the circle of life in nature» 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 (Jesus, one sparrow, seed), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:053-why-living-things-die-and-the-circle-of-life.lesson:16 # text = Jesus said not one sparrow falls without God knowing, and that a seed must fall into the ground and die to make many seeds. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 053-why-living-things-die-and-the-circle-of-life.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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Jesus Jesus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 sparrow sparrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 falls fall VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ 7 without without ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 9 knowing know VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 12 that that SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 seed seed NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 15 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 fall fall VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:ccomp 17 into into ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 die die VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 conj _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:xcomp 24 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 seeds seed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Jesus | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **fall** | present | one sparrow | | | | | without God | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **know** | gerund | one sparrow *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **fall** | must | a seed | | | | | into the ground *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into ground=Result | | 5 | **die** | infinitive | a seed *not said here* | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 6 | **make** | to-infinitive | a seed *not said here* | many seeds | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset seed=Product | 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:053-why-living-things-die-and-the-circle-of-life.lesson:16`. **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, R7-rel-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. 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