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title: Confucius said people cannot stand without trust (Analects 12.7); Is… — Olympiad practice: the hardest cases · tree and pragmatics
description: Confucius said people cannot stand without trust (Analects 12.7); Islam and Judaism treat truth as sacred with narrow exceptions for peace and life; humanists say honesty lets people live and work together. Who acts: Confucius, people, Islam, humanists. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad practice: t
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# Olympiad practice: the hardest cases, sentence 14

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Confucius said people cannot stand without trust (Analects 12.7); Islam and Judaism treat truth as sacred with narrow exceptions for peace and life; humanists say honesty lets people live and work together.

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**Who acts:** Confucius, people, Islam, humanists, honesty · **What happens:** say, not stand, treat, let, live, work together · **To what, where:** truth, people · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Confucius, people, Islam, humanists), 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:14
# text = Confucius said people cannot stand without trust (Analects 12.7); Islam and Judaism treat truth as sacred with narrow exceptions for peace and life; humanists say honesty lets people live and work together.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Confucius	Confucius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
7	without	without	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	trust	trust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Analects	analect	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
11	12.7	12.7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Frac	10	flat	_	_
12	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	10	punct	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	Islam	Islam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	Judaism	Judaism	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	treat	treat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
18	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	sacred	sacred	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	obl	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	narrow	narrow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	exceptions	exception	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
28	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	humanists	humanist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
30	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
31	honesty	honesty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	lets	let	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	ccomp	_	_
33	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	_
34	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	xcomp	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	conj	_	_
37	together	together	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=34:advmod
38	.	.	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Confucius |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **stand** | can | people |  |  |  |  | without trust  Analects | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **treat** | present | Islam and Judaism | truth |  |  |  | as sacred; with narrow exceptions for peace and life | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient with exception=Theme |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | humanists |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **let** | present | honesty | people |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **live** | infinitive | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **work together** | infinitive | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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**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, R8-pos-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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