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title: Some Muslims and Jews may feel unsure about pig organs because their… — Gifts of life: organ donation and giving blood · tree and pragmatics
description: Some Muslims and Jews may feel unsure about pig organs because their faiths forbid eating pork, though many religious leaders say saving a life comes first. Who acts: Muslims, faiths, many religious leaders, saving. A sentence of the lesson «Gifts of life: organ donation and giving blood» of the rel
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# Gifts of life: organ donation and giving blood, sentence 16

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Some Muslims and Jews may feel unsure about pig organs because their faiths forbid eating pork, though many religious leaders say saving a life comes first.

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**Who acts:** Muslims, faiths, many religious leaders, saving · **What happens:** feel, forbid, eat, say, save, come · **To what, where:** pork, life · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Gifts of life: organ donation and giving blood» 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 (Muslims, faiths, many religious leaders, saving), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:078-gifts-of-life-organ-donation-and-giving-blood.lesson:16
# text = Some Muslims and Jews may feel unsure about pig organs because their faiths forbid eating pork, though many religious leaders say saving a life comes first.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 078-gifts-of-life-organ-donation-and-giving-blood.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): no change
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	Muslims	Muslim	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	Jews	Jew	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	unsure	unsure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
8	about	about	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	pig	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	organs	organ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	faiths	faith	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	forbid	forbid	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
15	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	xcomp	_	_
16	pork	pork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	religious	religious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	leaders	leader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
23	saving	save	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	csubj	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	ccomp	_	_
27	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	26	advmod	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **feel** | may | some Muslims and Jews |  |  |  |  | unsure *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **forbid** | present | Muslims's faiths |  |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **eat** | gerund | Muslims's faiths *not said here* | pork |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pork=Patient |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | many religious leaders |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **save** | gerund |  | a life |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme |
| 6 | **come** | present | saving |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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): no change. **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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