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title: How far «turn the other cheek» applies, for example to self-defence… — The Sermon on the Mount · tree and pragmatics
description: How far «turn the other cheek» applies, for example to self-defence or war, is disputed among Christians. A sentence of the lesson «The Sermon on the Mount» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sermon on the Mount, sentence 12

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How far «turn the other cheek» applies, for example to self-defence or war, is disputed among Christians.

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**What happens:** turn, apply, dispute · **To what, where:** other cheek · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Sermon on the Mount» 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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:017-the-sermon-on-the-mount.lesson:12
# text = How far «turn the other cheek» applies, for example to self-defence or war, is disputed among Christians.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 017-the-sermon-on-the-mount.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
4	turn	turn	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:nsubj
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	cheek	cheek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
9	applies	apply	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	csubj:pass	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:case|HaikuPos=ADP:TO:_
14	self	self	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	_
16	defence	defence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	disputed	dispute	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
22	among	among	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Christians	Christian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	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 | **turn** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | the other cheek |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent cheek=Theme |
| 2 | **apply** | present |  |  |  |  |  | for example to self defence or war; far *property* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent for example=Eventuality |
| 3 | **dispute** | present · passive |  |  |  |  |  | among Christians | vn battle-36.4 «NP V» |

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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 ×2, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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