--- title: Christians believe God is truthful and wants people to be honest too… — Dilemmas about truth and friendship · tree and pragmatics description: Christians believe God is truthful and wants people to be honest too; one of the Ten Commandments forbids lying about others. Who acts: Christians, God, people, one. 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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 (Christians, God, people, one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:041-dilemmas-about-truth-and-friendship.lesson:15 # text = Christians believe God is truthful and wants people to be honest too; one of the Ten Commandments forbids lying about others. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 041-dilemmas-about-truth-and-friendship.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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Christians Christian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 believe believe VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 truthful truthful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 ccomp _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 wants want VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 8 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 10 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 11 cop _ _ 11 honest honest ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 xcomp _ _ 12 too too ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 14 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 19 nsubj _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 Ten Ten PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:nummod|HaikuPos=NUM:CD:NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 Commandments commandment PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 14 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 19 forbids forbid VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 20 lying lie VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 obj _ _ 21 about about ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **believe** | present | Christians | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **is** | present | God | | | | | truthful *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **want** | present | God *not said here* | people | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot people=Theme | | 4 | **is** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | | | | | honest *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **forbid** | present | one of the Ten Commandments | | | | | | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer | | 6 | **lie** | gerund | | | | | | about others | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent about other=Location | 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:041-dilemmas-about-truth-and-friendship.lesson:15`. **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 ×2, 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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