Creation: God the maker, sentence 15
Some Christians read the six days as six literal days; many read them as a poem-like story that teaches who made the world and why (disputed among Christians).
Who acts: Christians, many, like story · What happens: read, teach, make, dispute · To what, where: Christians, world · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Creation: God the maker» 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, many, like story), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 Christians | det |
| 2 | Christians | Christian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 read | nsubj |
| 3 | read | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 days | det |
| 5 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 days | nummod |
| 6 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 read | obj |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 days | case |
| 8 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 days | nummod |
| 9 | literal | literal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 days | amod |
| 10 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 read | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 read | punct |
| 12 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 read | nsubj |
| 13 | read | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 read | parataxis |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 read | obj |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 story | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 story | det |
| 17 | poem | poem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 like | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 like | punct |
| 19 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 story | amod |
| 20 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 read | obl |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 teaches | nsubj |
| 22 | teaches | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 story | acl:relcl |
| 23 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 made | nsubj |
| 24 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 teaches | ccomp |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 world | det |
| 26 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 made | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 disputed | cc |
| 28 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 30 disputed | advmod |
| 29 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 30 disputed | punct |
| 30 | disputed | dispute | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 made | conj |
| 31 | among | among | ADP | _ | 32 Christians | case |
| 32 | Christians | Christian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 30 disputed | obl |
| 33 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 30 disputed | punct |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 read | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | past | some Christians | day | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | read | past | many | Christians = christian | as a like story | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus as story=Attribute | |||
| 3 | teach speech: other | present | a like story | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | make | past | the world | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent world=Product | |||||
| 5 | dispute | participle | among Christians | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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, 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:001-creation-god-the-maker.lesson:15.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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.
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