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title: In the parable of the workers in the vineyard, every worker received… — Olympiad: fair or unfair, chains of reasons and… · tree and pragmatics
description: In the parable of the workers in the vineyard, every worker received the one coin agreed, and the owner asked, "Are you envious because I am generous?" (Matthew 20:15); people still argue about what the story teaches. Who acts: worker, owner, you, people. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: fair or 
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# Olympiad: fair or unfair, chains of reasons and dilemmas ★★★, sentence 12

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In the parable of the workers in the vineyard, every worker received the one coin agreed, and the owner asked, "Are you envious because I am generous?" (Matthew 20:15); people still argue about what the story teaches.

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**Who acts:** worker, owner, you, people, story · **What happens:** receive, agree, ask, be, argue, teach · **To what, where:** one coin, parable, Matthew · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: fair or unfair, chains of reasons and dilemmas ★★★» 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 (worker, owner, you, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:103-olympiad-fair-or-unfair-chains-of-reasons-and-dilemmas.lesson:12
# text = In the parable of the workers in the vineyard, every worker received the one coin agreed, and the owner asked, "Are you envious because I am generous?" (Matthew 20:15); people still argue about what the story teaches.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 103-olympiad-fair-or-unfair-chains-of-reasons-and-dilemmas.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	parable	parable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	workers	worker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	vineyard	vineyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	worker	worker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	coin	coin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	agreed	agree	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	owner	owner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	_
25	Are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	envious	envious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:parataxis
28	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
29	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
31	generous	generous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	advcl	_	_
32	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	_
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
34	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	35	punct	_	_
35	Matthew	Matthew	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
36	20:15	20:15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	35	flat	_	_
37	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	35	punct	_	_
38	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nsubj	_	_
40	still	still	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	argue	argue	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
42	about	about	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
43	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	46	obj	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nsubj	_	_
46	teaches	teach	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	obl	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=decl, act=narrate, voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **receive** | past | every worker | the one coin |  | the parable of the workers in the vineyard |  |  | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent coin=Theme in parable=Location |
| 2 | **agree** *speech: agree* | participle |  | the one coin *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the owner | Matthew |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  | envious *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the owner *= owner* |  |  |  |  | generous *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present | people |  |  |  | still |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **teach** *speech: other* | present | the story |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient |

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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): 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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