--- title: Christians believe each day is a gift from God and that love is the… — Living well because life is short · tree and pragmatics description: Christians believe each day is a gift from God and that love is the greatest thing, as Paul wrote, «Faith, hope and love, and the greatest of these is love»; humanists say this life is the one we know, so we should make it count; both say live well now. Who acts: Christians, day, love, Paul. 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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, day, love, Paul), 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:4 # text = Christians believe each day is a gift from God and that love is the greatest thing, as Paul wrote, «Faith, hope and love, and the greatest of these is love»; humanists say this life is the one we know, so we should make it count; both say live well now. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Christians Christian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 2 believe believe VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 4 det _ _ 4 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 gift gift NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 ccomp _ _ 8 from from ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=7:cc 11 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 12 det _ _ 12 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 greatest great ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 16 amod _ _ 16 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 as as SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 19 Paul Paul PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 wrote write VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 22 « « PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:::_ 23 Faith faith NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:obj 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 hope hope NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 27 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=31:punct 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 greatest great ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 35 nsubj _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 these this PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 31 nmod _ _ 34 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 35 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 parataxis _ _ 36 » » PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=35:punct 37 ; ; PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 humanists humanist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nsubj _ _ 39 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 40 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 41 det _ _ 41 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nsubj _ _ 42 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 44 cop _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 ccomp _ _ 45 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 46 nsubj _ _ 46 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 44 acl:relcl _ _ 47 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 48 so so ADV RB _ 51 advmod _ _ 49 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 51 nsubj _ _ 50 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 51 aux _ _ 51 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 44 parataxis _ _ 52 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 51 obj _ _ 53 count count VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 51 xcomp _ _ 54 ; ; PUNCT , _ 56 punct _ _ 55 both both PRON DT PronType=Tot 56 nsubj _ _ 56 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=39:conj 57 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 56 ccomp _ _ 58 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 57 advmod _ _ 59 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 57 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=56:advmod 60 . . 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 | **believe** | present | Christians | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **is a** | present | each day | a gift and the greatest thing | | | | from God | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | present | that love | the greatest thing | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **write** | past | Paul | | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the greatest of these | love | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | humanists | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **is a** | present | this life | the one | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **know** | present | we | the one *not said here* | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus | | 9 | **make** | should | we | life | | | | | tree rules | | 10 | **count** | infinitive | life *not said here* | | | | | | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | | 11 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | both | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 12 | **live** | infinitive | | | | | now | well *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:076-living-well-because-life-is-short.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Living well because life is short, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/76-living-well-because-life-is-short/1/) - next →: [Living well because life is short, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/76-living-well-because-life-is-short/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/76-living-well-because-life-is-short/)