--- title: Christians pray for the sick and believe God is with them whether th… — Illness, hospitals and children who are very ill · tree and pragmatics description: Christians pray for the sick and believe God is with them whether they get better or not; many hospitals have chaplains of different faiths, and people of every faith and none help by cooking meals, sending cards and being good friends. Who acts: Christians, God, many hospitals, people. A sentence o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/59-illness-hospitals-and-children-who-are-very-ill/4/) [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/) / [Illness, hospitals and children who ar…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/59-illness-hospitals-and-children-who-are-very-ill/) / 4 # Illness, hospitals and children who are very ill, sentence 4 Christians pray for the sick and believe God is with them whether they get better or not; many hospitals have chaplains of different faiths, and people of every faith and none help by cooking meals, sending cards and being good friends. **Who acts:** Christians, God, many hospitals, people · **What happens:** pray, believe, be, get, have, help · **To what, where:** chaplains, meals, cards, good friends · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Illness, hospitals and children who are very ill» 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, God, many hospitals, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:059-illness-hospitals-and-children-who-are-very-ill.lesson:4 # text = Christians pray for the sick and believe God is with them whether they get better or not; many hospitals have chaplains of different faiths, and people of every faith and none help by cooking meals, sending cards and being good friends. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 059-illness-hospitals-and-children-who-are-very-ill.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): R3-conj-first ×1 1 Christians Christian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 pray pray VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 for for ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 sick sick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 obl _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 believe believe VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 8 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 ccomp _ _ 12 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 13 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 15 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 14 xcomp _ _ 16 or or CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 conj _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 hospitals hospital NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 21 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=7:conj 22 chaplains chaplain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 faiths faith NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nmod _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 28 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 31 det _ _ 31 faith faith NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 none none PRON NN PronType=Neg 31 conj _ _ 34 help help VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 35 by by ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 cooking cook VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 34 obl _ _ 37 meals meal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obj _ _ 38 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 39 sending send VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 36 conj _ _ 40 cards card NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 obj _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 42 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 44 cop _ _ 43 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 conj _ _ 45 . . 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 | **pray** | present | Christians | | | | | for the sick | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for sick=Theme | | 2 | **believe** | present | Christians *not said here* | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **is** | present | God | | | | | with Christians *= christian* | tree rules | | 4 | **get** | present | Christians *= christian* | | | | | good *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **have** | present | many hospitals | chaplains of different faiths | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chaplain=Patient | | 6 | **help** | present | people of every faith | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **cook** | gerund | | meals | | | | | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent meal=Patient | | 8 | **send** | gerund | | cards | | | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent card=Theme | | 9 | **is a** | gerund | | good friends | | | | | tree rules | 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:059-illness-hospitals-and-children-who-are-very-ill.lesson:4`. **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): R3-conj-first ×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/). - ← previous: [Illness, hospitals and children who ar…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/59-illness-hospitals-and-children-who-are-very-ill/3/) - next →: [Illness, hospitals and children who ar…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/59-illness-hospitals-and-children-who-are-very-ill/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/59-illness-hospitals-and-children-who-are-very-ill/)