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title: The Bible teaches care for the poor, for example by letting the hung… — Finders keepers and what belongs to whom · tree and pragmatics
description: The Bible teaches care for the poor, for example by letting the hungry gather leftover grain at the edges of fields (Leviticus 19:9-10). Who acts: Bible. A sentence of the lesson «Finders keepers and what belongs to whom» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tre
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# Finders keepers and what belongs to whom, sentence 18

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The Bible teaches care for the poor, for example by letting the hungry gather leftover grain at the edges of fields (Leviticus 19:9-10).

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**Who acts:** Bible · **What happens:** teach, let, gather · **To what, where:** care, leftover grain, edges

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Finders keepers and what belongs to whom» 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 (Bible), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:042-finders-keepers-and-what-belongs-to-whom.lesson:18
# text = The Bible teaches care for the poor, for example by letting the hungry gather leftover grain at the edges of fields (Leviticus 19:9-10).
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 042-finders-keepers-and-what-belongs-to-whom.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 ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Bible	Bible	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	teaches	teach	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:det
7	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	letting	let	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	obj	_	_
15	gather	gather	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
16	leftover	leftover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	edges	edge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:obl
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
23	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	24	punct	_	_
24	Leviticus	Leviticus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:obj
25	19:9-10	19:9-10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	flat	_	_
26	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	24	punct	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **teach** *speech: other* | present | the Bible | care |  |  |  | for poor example | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent care=Recipient |
| 2 | **let** | gerund | the Bible *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **gather** | infinitive | the Bible *not said here* | leftover grain |  | the edges of fields |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent grain=Theme at edge=Asset |

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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): R5-strong ×2, 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.

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