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description: The two builders show that those who put Jesus' teaching into practice stand firm in hard times. Who acts: two builders, those. A sentence of the lesson «Parables: the Talents, the Sower and more» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Parables: the Talents, the Sower and more, sentence 14

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The two builders show that those who put Jesus' teaching into practice stand firm in hard times.

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**Who acts:** two builders, those · **What happens:** show, put, stand · **To what, where:** teaching, practice · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Parables: the Talents, the Sower and more» 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 (two builders, those), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:015-parables-talents-sower-and-more.lesson:14
# text = The two builders show that those who put Jesus' teaching into practice stand firm in hard times.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 015-parables-talents-sower-and-more.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): no change
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	builders	builder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	show	show	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
6	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	14	nsubj	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	put	put	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	Jesus	Jesus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	'	'	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	teaching	teach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	practice	practice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	stand	stand	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
15	firm	firm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present | the two builders |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **put** | present |  | Jesus's teaching |  | practice |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent teach=Goal |
| 3 | **stand** | present | those |  |  |  | time | firm *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «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): no change. **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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