--- title: The commandment against idols forbids making carved images to worshi… — The Ten Commandments · tree and pragmatics description: The commandment against idols forbids making carved images to worship; Orthodox and Catholics use icons and statues to help prayer, while some Protestants avoid them, so this point is disputed. Who acts: commandment, Orthodox, Protestants. 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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 (commandment, Orthodox, Protestants), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:007-the-ten-commandments.lesson:8 # text = The commandment against idols forbids making carved images to worship; Orthodox and Catholics use icons and statues to help prayer, while some Protestants avoid them, so this point is disputed. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 007-the-ten-commandments.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, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 commandment commandment NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 against against ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 idols idol NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nmod _ _ 5 forbids forbid VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 making make VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:ccomp 7 carved carve VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 amod _ _ 8 images image NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 worship worship VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 advcl _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 Orthodox orthodox NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 Catholics Catholic PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 12 conj _ _ 15 use used VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 16 icons icon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 statues statue NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 conj _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 advcl _ _ 21 prayer prayer NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 while while SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 24 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 25 det _ _ 25 Protestants Protestant PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 26 avoid avoid VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:conj 27 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 29 so so ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 30 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 31 det _ _ 31 point point NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj:pass _ _ 32 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux:pass _ _ 33 disputed dispute VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 34 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **forbid** | present | the commandment against idols | | | | | | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **make** | gerund | the commandment against idols *not said here* | carved images | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset image=Product | | 3 | **carve** | participle | | | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **worship** | to-infinitive | the commandment against idols *not said here* | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **used** | present | Orthodox and Catholics | icons and statues | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **help** | to-infinitive | Orthodox and Catholics *not said here* | prayer | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prayer=Beneficiary | | 7 | **avoid** | present | some Protestants | Commandments *= commandment* | | | | | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent they=Location | | 8 | **dispute** | present · passive | | this point | | | | | 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. 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