--- title: Christians believe truth and love belong together: the Bible speaks… — Dilemmas about truth and friendship · tree and pragmatics description: Christians believe truth and love belong together: the Bible speaks of "speaking the truth in love" (Ephesians 4:15), so honesty should be gentle and kindness should be honest. Who acts: Christians, truth, Bible, honesty. 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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, truth, Bible, honesty), 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:4 # text = Christians believe truth and love belong together: the Bible speaks of "speaking the truth in love" (Ephesians 4:15), so honesty should be gentle and kindness should be honest. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 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 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 6 belong belong VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ 7 together together ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:det 10 Bible Bible PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:compound 11 speaks speak VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 12 of of SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 14 speaking speak VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:nmod 19 " " PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ 20 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 21 punct _ _ 21 Ephesians Ephesians PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 22 4:15 4:15 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 21 flat _ _ 23 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 21 punct _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 25 so so ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 26 honesty honesty NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 27 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 28 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 29 cop _ _ 29 gentle gentle ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 parataxis _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 31 kindness kindness NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 32 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 33 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 34 cop _ _ 34 honest honest ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 conj _ _ 35 . . 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 clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **belong** | present | truth and love | | | | | together *property* | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | the Bible | Ephesians | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **speak** *speech: other* *in a quote* | gerund | the Bible *not said here* | the truth | | love | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | should | honesty | | | | | gentle *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **is** | should | kindness | | | | | honest *property* | tree rules | 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:4`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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