The environment, sentence 0
Christians believe the earth is God's creation, given to people to look after like stewards, who care for something that belongs to someone else; many other faiths and humanists also believe we must care for the earth.
Who acts: Christians, earth, stewards, many other faiths, we · What happens: believe, be, give, look, care, belong · To what, where: creation, people · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The environment» 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, earth, stewards, many other faiths), 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 | Christians | Christian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 2 believe | nsubj |
| 2 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 earth | det |
| 4 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 creation | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 creation | cop |
| 6 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 creation | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 God | case |
| 8 | creation | creation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 believe | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 given | punct |
| 10 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 creation | acl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 people | case |
| 12 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 given | obl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 look | mark |
| 14 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 people | acl |
| 15 | after | after | ADP | _ | 17 stewards | case |
| 16 | like | like | ADP | _ | 17 stewards | case |
| 17 | stewards | steward | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 look | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 care | punct |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 care | nsubj |
| 20 | care | care | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 stewards | acl:relcl |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 something | case |
| 22 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 20 care | obl |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 belongs | nsubj |
| 24 | belongs | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 something | acl:relcl |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 someone | case |
| 26 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 24 belongs | obl |
| 27 | else | else | ADV | _ | 26 someone | advmod |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 faiths | punct |
| 29 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 faiths | amod |
| 30 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 faiths | amod |
| 31 | faiths | faith | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 believe | nsubj |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 humanists | cc |
| 33 | humanists | humanist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 faiths | conj |
| 34 | also | also | ADV | _ | 35 believe | advmod |
| 35 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 believe | parataxis |
| 36 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 38 care | nsubj |
| 37 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 care | aux |
| 38 | care | care | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 believe | ccomp |
| 39 | for | for | ADP | _ | 41 earth | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 earth | det |
| 41 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 care | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 believe | punct |
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 | the earth | God's creation | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | give | participle | God's creation not said here | people | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to people=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | look | to-infinitive | after stewards | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | care | present | stewards | for something | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for something=Theme | ||||
| 6 | belong | present | to someone | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | believe | present | many other faiths and humanists | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 8 | care | must | we | for the earth | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for earth=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, 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:047-the-environment.lesson:0.
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 ×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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