--- title: Christians are asked to "give thanks in all circumstances" (1 Thessa… — White lies: the ugly jumper and the bad drawing · tree and pragmatics description: Christians are asked to "give thanks in all circumstances" (1 Thessalonians 5:18): gratitude is owed for the giving, whatever the gift. Who acts: Christians. 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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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:083-white-lies-the-ugly-jumper-and-the-bad-drawing.lesson:14 # text = Christians are asked to "give thanks in all circumstances" (1 Thessalonians 5:18): gratitude is owed for the giving, whatever the gift. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 083-white-lies-the-ugly-jumper-and-the-bad-drawing.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 3 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 asked ask VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 6 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 7 thanks thanks NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 10 det _ _ 10 circumstances circumstance NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 12 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 13 punct _ _ 13 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 parataxis _ _ 14 Thessalonians Thessalonians PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 13 flat _ _ 15 5:18 5:18 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 14 flat _ _ 16 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 13 punct _ _ 17 : : PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 18 gratitude gratitude NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj:pass _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux:pass _ _ 20 owed owe VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 parataxis _ _ 21 for for ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 giving giving NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 whatever whatever DET WDT PronType=Rel 27 det _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 gift gift NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 parataxis _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present · passive | | Christians | | | | | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **give** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | Christians *not said here* | thanks | | all circumstances | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thanks=Theme | | 3 | **owe** | present · passive | | gratitude | | | | for the giving *goal* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme for giving=Goal | 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:083-white-lies-the-ugly-jumper-and-the-bad-drawing.lesson:14`. **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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