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title: Christians believe God sees what is done in secret (Matthew 6:4), so… — Cheating, rules and games · tree and pragmatics
description: Christians believe God sees what is done in secret (Matthew 6:4), so honesty matters even when no one else is watching. Who acts: Christians, God, honesty, one. A sentence of the lesson «Cheating, rules and games» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and th
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# Cheating, rules and games, sentence 17

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Christians believe God sees what is done in secret (Matthew 6:4), so honesty matters even when no one else is watching.

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**Who acts:** Christians, God, honesty, one · **What happens:** believe, see, do, matter, watch · **To what, where:** secret · **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 (Christians, God, honesty, one), 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:17
# text = Christians believe God sees what is done in secret (Matthew 6:4), so honesty matters even when no one else is watching.
# 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): R7-rel-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	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sees	see	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
5	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	ccomp	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	secret	secret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
11	Matthew	matthew	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
12	6:4	6:4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	flat	_	_
13	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	honesty	honesty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	matters	matter	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
18	even	even	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
19	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	24	advmod	_	_
20	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	21	det	_	_
21	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
22	else	else	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	advcl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **believe** | present | Christians |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **see** | present | God |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **do** | present · passive |  |  |  | secret |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 4 | **matter** | present | honesty |  |  |  |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **watch** | present · progressive | no one |  |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |

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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): 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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