--- title: For a child today it means: stop a fight instead of joining it, wish… — The Sermon on the Mount · tree and pragmatics description: For a child today it means: stop a fight instead of joining it, wish good even for someone who was mean, check your own faults before pointing at others, and care more about people than about stuff. Who acts: child, your. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child, your), 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:5 # text = For a child today it means: stop a fight instead of joining it, wish good even for someone who was mean, check your own faults before pointing at others, and care more about people than about stuff. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 For for ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 4 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod:unmarked _ _ 5 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 8 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 fight fight NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=SCONJ 13 mark _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 11 fixed _ _ 13 joining join VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 wish wish VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 obj _ _ 18 even even ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 19 for for ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 16 obl _ _ 21 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 23 nsubj _ _ 22 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 23 mean mean ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 acl:relcl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 check check VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 26 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 27 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 faults fault NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 29 before before SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 30 pointing point VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 25 advcl _ _ 31 at at ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 care care VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 36 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 35 advmod _ _ 37 about about ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obl _ _ 39 than than ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 about about ADP IN _ 41 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=41:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 41 stuff stuff NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | child | | | | | for a child today | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot for child=Attribute | | 2 | **stop** | infinitive | child *not said here* | a fight | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality fight=Eventuality | | 3 | **join** | gerund | child *not said here* | fight | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 4 | **wish** | infinitive | child *not said here* | good | | | | for someone | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot good=Theme | | 5 | **is** | past | | | | | | mean *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **check** | infinitive | child *not said here* | your own faults | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fault=Theme | | 7 | **point** | gerund | child *not said here* | | | others | | | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **care** | infinitive | child *not said here* | | | | | about people than stuff | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about people=Stimulus | | 9 | **fault** | | your | | | | | | nom fault «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:religion-ethics:017-the-sermon-on-the-mount.lesson:5`. **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): R5-strong ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The Sermon on the Mount, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/17-the-sermon-on-the-mount/4/) - next →: [The Sermon on the Mount, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/17-the-sermon-on-the-mount/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/17-the-sermon-on-the-mount/)