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title: Christians differ on whether every detail of these books is exact hi… — Ruth, and David and Goliath · tree and pragmatics
description: Christians differ on whether every detail of these books is exact history; the lessons are agreed, the details are disputed. Who acts: Christians, detail. A sentence of the lesson «Ruth, and David and Goliath» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Ruth, and David and Goliath, sentence 16

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Christians differ on whether every detail of these books is exact history; the lessons are agreed, the details are disputed.

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**Who acts:** Christians, detail · **What happens:** differ, be, agree, dispute, detail · **To what, where:** exact history, lessons, details, books

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Ruth, and David and Goliath» 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, detail), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:008-ruth-and-david-and-goliath.lesson:16
# text = Christians differ on whether every detail of these books is exact history; the lessons are agreed, the details are disputed.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 008-ruth-and-david-and-goliath.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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Christians	Christian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	differ	differ	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
4	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
5	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	detail	detail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	exact	exact	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	lessons	lesson	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	agreed	agree	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	advcl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	details	detail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	disputed	dispute	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	_
23	.	.	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 | **differ** | present | Christians |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | every detail of this books | exact history |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **agree** *speech: agree* | present · passive |  | the lessons |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Topic |
| 4 | **dispute** | present · passive |  | the details |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **detail** |  |  | this books |  |  |  |  | nom detail «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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**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:008-ruth-and-david-and-goliath.lesson:16`.

**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): R7-rel-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/).

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