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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Christians, Psalms, vicar, God), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:067-grief-anger-guilt-and-laughing-at-the-wrong-moment.lesson:4 # text = Christians point out that the Psalms are full of angry questions to God, and the vicar says God can take our anger and still loves us; people of every faith and none know these mixed feelings. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 067-grief-anger-guilt-and-laughing-at-the-wrong-moment.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, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Christians Christian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 point point VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 out out ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 4 that that SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 Psalms psalm PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 7 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 8 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 ccomp _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 angry angry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 questions question NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:nmod 12 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 vicar vicar NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 19 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 20 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 ccomp _ _ 22 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 anger anger NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 still still ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 loves love VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 27 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 ; ; PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 29 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 32 det _ _ 32 faith faith NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 none none PRON NN PronType=Neg 32 conj _ _ 35 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 conj _ _ 36 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 38 det _ _ 37 mixed mix VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 38 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=38:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 38 feelings feeling NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:obj 39 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **point out** | present | Christians | | | | | | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | present | the Psalms | | | | | of angry questions to God; full *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the vicar | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **take** | can | God | our anger | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anger=Theme | | 5 | **love** | present | God *not said here* | us | | | still | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer we=Stimulus | | 6 | **know** | infinitive | people of every faith | this mixed feelings | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer feeling=Stimulus | | 7 | **mix** | participle | | | | | | | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 8 | **anger** | | our | | | | | | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent | 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:067-grief-anger-guilt-and-laughing-at-the-wrong-moment.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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. 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