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title: Christians may pray at bedtime and trust God's love, the vicar says… — Bedtime fears: «Will you die, Mum?» and «Will I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Christians may pray at bedtime and trust God's love, the vicar says he trusts Jesus «who went through death and came out the other side», and people of every faith and none comfort children with honest answers and lots of hugs. Who acts: Christians, vicar, Jesus, God. A sentence of the lesson «Bedti
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# Bedtime fears: «Will you die, Mum?» and «Will I die?», sentence 4

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Christians may pray at bedtime and trust God's love, the vicar says he trusts Jesus «who went through death and came out the other side», and people of every faith and none comfort children with honest answers and lots of hugs.

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**Who acts:** Christians, vicar, Jesus, God · **What happens:** pray, trust, say, go, come out, love · **To what, where:** bedtime, love, Jesus, death, other side · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Bedtime fears: «Will you die, Mum?» and «Will I die?»» 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, vicar, Jesus, God), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:070-bedtime-fears-will-you-die-mum-and-will-i-die.lesson:4
# text = Christians may pray at bedtime and trust God's love, the vicar says he trusts Jesus «who went through death and came out the other side», and people of every faith and none comfort children with honest answers and lots of hugs.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 070-bedtime-fears-will-you-die-mum-and-will-i-die.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 ×3
1	Christians	Christian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	pray	pray	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	bedtime	bedtime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	trust	trust	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
8	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	vicar	vicar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	trusts	trust	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	ccomp	_	_
17	Jesus	Jesus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
19	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
21	through	through	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
25	out	out	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
29	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	35	det	_	_
35	faith	faith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
37	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	35	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=39:compound
38	comfort	comfort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	conj	_	_
40	with	with	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	answers	answer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=39:nmod
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	lots	lot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=39:conj
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	hugs	hug	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	nmod	_	_
47	.	.	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 | **pray** | may | Christians |  |  | bedtime |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **trust** | infinitive | Christians *not said here* | God's love |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the vicar |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **trust** | present | vicar | Jesus |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jesus=Theme |
| 5 | **go** *in a quote* | past | Jesus |  |  | death |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through death=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **come out** *in a quote* | past | Jesus *not said here* | the other side |  |  |  | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **love** |  | God |  |  |  |  |  | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=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): R5-strong ×3. **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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