---
title: Hebrews 11:31 and James 2:25 praise Rahab's faith and action in hidi… — Olympiad practice: the hardest cases · tree and pragmatics
description: Hebrews 11:31 and James 2:25 praise Rahab's faith and action in hiding the spies, not the lie as such; Christians have debated it since Augustine. Who acts: Hebrews, faith, Christians. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad practice: the hardest cases» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary sch
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/100-olympiad-practice-the-hardest-cases/10/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/) / [Olympiad practice: the hardest cases](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/100-olympiad-practice-the-hardest-cases/) / 10

# Olympiad practice: the hardest cases, sentence 10

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Hebrews 11:31 and James 2:25 praise Rahab's faith and action in hiding the spies, not the lie as such; Christians have debated it since Augustine.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Hebrews, faith, Christians · **What happens:** praise, hide, debate · **To what, where:** faith, spies, lie

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad practice: the hardest cases» 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 (Hebrews, faith, Christians), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:100-olympiad-practice-the-hardest-cases.lesson:10
# text = Hebrews 11:31 and James 2:25 praise Rahab's faith and action in hiding the spies, not the lie as such; Christians have debated it since Augustine.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 100-olympiad-practice-the-hardest-cases.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Hebrews	Hebrews	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
2	11:31	11:31	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	flat	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	James	James	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
5	2:25	2:25	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	flat	_	_
6	praise	praise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Rahab	Rahab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	faith	faith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	action	action	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	hiding	hide	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	spies	spy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	lie	lie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	nmod	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=6:punct
23	Christians	Christian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
24	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	debated	debate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	since	since	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Augustine	Augustine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- sa -->
- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed polarity=pos

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **praise** | present | Hebrews and James | Rahab's faith and action and the lie as such |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent faith=Theme |
| 2 | **hide** | gerund | Rahab's faith and action and the lie as such *not said here* | the spies |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spy=Patient |
| 3 | **debate** | present · perfect | Christians | lie |  |  | since Augustine |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-Agent |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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:100-olympiad-practice-the-hardest-cases.lesson:10`.

**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, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Olympiad practice: the hardest cases, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/100-olympiad-practice-the-hardest-cases/9/)
- next →: [Olympiad practice: the hardest cases, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/100-olympiad-practice-the-hardest-cases/11/)
- ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/100-olympiad-practice-the-hardest-cases/)

