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title: So the Psalms teach a child that you can bring anything to God, even… — Psalms and Proverbs · tree and pragmatics
description: So the Psalms teach a child that you can bring anything to God, even fear or anger, and that honest prayer is not rude prayer. Who acts: Psalms, child, honest prayer. A sentence of the lesson «Psalms and Proverbs» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and th
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# Psalms and Proverbs, sentence 2

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So the Psalms teach a child that you can bring anything to God, even fear or anger, and that honest prayer is not rude prayer.

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**Who acts:** Psalms, child, honest prayer · **What happens:** teach, bring, not be · **To what, where:** child, anything, God, rude prayer

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Psalms and Proverbs» 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 (Psalms, child, honest prayer), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:011-psalms-and-proverbs.lesson:2
# text = So the Psalms teach a child that you can bring anything to God, even fear or anger, and that honest prayer is not rude prayer.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 011-psalms-and-proverbs.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Psalms	psalm	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
4	teach	teach	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	_
11	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	10	obj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	even	even	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	parataxis	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
22	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	prayer	prayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
26	rude	rude	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	prayer	prayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:ccomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **teach** *speech: other* | present | the Psalms |  | a child |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent child=Recipient |
| 2 | **bring** | can | a child | anything | God |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent anything=Theme to god=Destination |
| 3 | **not** **is a** | present | honest prayer | rude prayer |  |  |  |  | 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): R7-rel-agree ×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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