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title: Christians believe life has meaning because God made and loves each… — Living well because life is short · tree and pragmatics
description: Christians believe life has meaning because God made and loves each person, and that life continues with God. Who acts: Christians, life, God. A sentence of the lesson «Living well because life is short» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Living well because life is short, sentence 10

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Christians believe life has meaning because God made and loves each person, and that life continues with God.

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**Who acts:** Christians, life, God · **What happens:** believe, have, make, love, continue · **To what, where:** meaning, person · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Living well because life is short» 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, life, God), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:076-living-well-because-life-is-short.lesson:10
# text = Christians believe life has meaning because God made and loves each person, and that life continues with God.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 076-living-well-because-life-is-short.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
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	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
5	meaning	mean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	loves	love	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
11	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:det|HaikuPos=DET:DT:Number=Sing|PronType=Dem
16	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	continues	continue	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	.	.	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 |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **have** | present | life | meaning |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mean=Patient |
| 3 | **make** | past | God |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **love** | present | God *not said here* | each person |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer person=Stimulus |
| 5 | **continue** | present | life |  |  |  |  | with God | vn continue-55.3 «NP.eventuality V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with god=Subeventuality |

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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 ×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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