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title: When his disciples were criticised for picking grain on the Sabbath,… — Cheating, rules and games · tree and pragmatics
description: When his disciples were criticised for picking grain on the Sabbath, Jesus said "the Sabbath was made for people, not people for the Sabbath" (Mark 2:27), and he went on to heal a man on the Sabbath (Mark 3:1-5): rules are there to serve people. Who acts: Jesus, rules. A sentence of the lesson «Chea
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# Cheating, rules and games, sentence 16

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When his disciples were criticised for picking grain on the Sabbath, Jesus said "the Sabbath was made for people, not people for the Sabbath" (Mark 2:27), and he went on to heal a man on the Sabbath (Mark 3:1-5): rules are there to serve people.

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**Who acts:** Jesus, rules · **What happens:** criticise, pick, say, make, go on, heal · **To what, where:** disciples, grain, Sabbath, man, people · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Cheating, rules and games» 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 (Jesus, rules), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:044-cheating-rules-and-games.lesson:16
# text = When his disciples were criticised for picking grain on the Sabbath, Jesus said "the Sabbath was made for people, not people for the Sabbath" (Mark 2:27), and he went on to heal a man on the Sabbath (Mark 3:1-5): rules are there to serve people.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 044-cheating-rules-and-games.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, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	disciples	disciple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	criticised	criticise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	advcl	_	_
6	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	picking	pick	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
8	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Sabbath	sabbath	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
13	Jesus	Jesus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Sabbath	sabbath	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:nsubj:pass|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	ccomp	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Sabbath	sabbath	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
29	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	30	punct	_	_
30	Mark	Mark	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	_
31	2:27	2:27	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	flat	_	_
32	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	30	punct	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
37	on	on	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	heal	heal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	xcomp	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
42	on	on	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	Sabbath	sabbath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
45	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	46	punct	_	_
46	Mark	Mark	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	appos	_	_
47	3:1-5	3:1-5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	46	flat	_	_
48	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	46	punct	_	_
49	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	52	punct	_	_
50	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	nsubj	_	_
51	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	52	cop	_	_
52	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	parataxis	_	_
53	to	to	PART	TO	_	54	mark	_	_
54	serve	serve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	52	advcl	_	_
55	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	54	obj	_	_
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **criticise** | past · passive |  | loser's disciples |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pick** | gerund |  | grain |  |  | on the Sabbath |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grain=Patient |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Jesus |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **make** *in a quote* | past · passive |  | the Sabbath |  |  |  | for people and people for the Sabbath | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Product for people=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **go on** | past | Jesus |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **heal** | to-infinitive | Jesus *not said here* | a man |  |  | on the Sabbath |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent man=Patient |
| 7 | **is** | present | rules |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **serve** | to-infinitive | rules *not said here* | people |  |  |  |  | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Attribute |

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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 ×1, R8-pos-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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