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title: Christians believe truthfulness is a likeness to God, who is truth,… — Olympiad practice: the hardest cases · tree and pragmatics
description: Christians believe truthfulness is a likeness to God, who is truth, always joined to love (Ephesians 4:15); nearly everyone agrees honesty should be the rule and exceptions rare and serious. Who acts: Christians, truthfulness, God, everyone. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad practice: the hardest c
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# Olympiad practice: the hardest cases, sentence 4

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Christians believe truthfulness is a likeness to God, who is truth, always joined to love (Ephesians 4:15); nearly everyone agrees honesty should be the rule and exceptions rare and serious.

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**Who acts:** Christians, truthfulness, God, everyone, honesty · **What happens:** believe, be, join, love, agree · **To what, where:** likeness, God, truth, rule · **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 (Christians, truthfulness, God, everyone), 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:4
# text = Christians believe truthfulness is a likeness to God, who is truth, always joined to love (Ephesians 4:15); nearly everyone agrees honesty should be the rule and exceptions rare and serious.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Christians	Christian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	believe	believe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	truthfulness	truthfulness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	likeness	likeness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	acl:relcl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	15	advmod	_	_
15	joined	join	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	love	love	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	19	punct	_	_
19	Ephesians	Ephesians	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	15	parataxis	_	_
20	4:15	4:15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	flat	_	_
21	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	19	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
23	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	25	nsubj	_	_
25	agrees	agree	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
26	honesty	honesty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
27	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	cop	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	ccomp	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	exceptions	exception	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	conj	_	_
33	rare	rare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	serious	serious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	conj	_	_
36	.	.	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 | **believe** | present | Christians |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is a** | present | truthfulness | a likeness | God |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | God | truth |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **join** | participle | God *not said here* |  |  |  |  | always *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **love** | to-infinitive | God *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **agree** *speech: agree* | present | everyone |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **is a** | should | honesty | the rule and exceptions |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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): R6-punct-agree ×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.

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