--- title: Ruth, and David and Goliath — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Ruth, and David and Goliath», a lesson of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Ruth was a young widow from Moab, a foreign land, who would not leave her mother-in-law Naomi: «Where you go I will go, and your peopl --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/8-ruth-and-david-and-goliath/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/) / Ruth, and David and Goliath # Ruth, and David and Goliath Lesson 8 of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school: 14 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/religion-ethics/8-ruth-and-david-and-goliath/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/8-ruth-and-david-and-goliath/0/) — Ruth was a young widow from Moab, a foreign land, who would not leave her mother-in-law Naomi: «Where you go I will go, and your people will be my people». - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/8-ruth-and-david-and-goliath/1/) — In Israel Ruth gleaned, gathering the leftover grain in the field of Boaz, as God's law let the poor do; Boaz protected her, gave her extra grain and later married her, and Ruth became the great-grandmother of King David. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/8-ruth-and-david-and-goliath/2/) — Years later the prophet Samuel anointed the youngest shepherd boy, David, as the future king, because «the Lord looks at the heart»; then the giant Goliath frightened the whole army, but David went out with a sling and five smooth stones and won with the first one. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/8-ruth-and-david-and-goliath/4/) — For a child today these stories mean: welcome the newcomer, be loyal to friends when it costs you, use the gifts you have instead of copying others, and do not take revenge even when you could. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/8-ruth-and-david-and-goliath/6/) — Ruth was not an Israelite, yet she was welcomed and became the great-grandmother of King David. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/8-ruth-and-david-and-goliath/7/) — Gleaning meant gathering grain left at the edges of a field; God's law let the poor and foreigners do it. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/8-ruth-and-david-and-goliath/8/) — Boaz protected Ruth, left extra grain for her and later married her. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/8-ruth-and-david-and-goliath/9/) — God sent the prophet Samuel to anoint the youngest son of Jesse, the shepherd boy David, as the future king. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/8-ruth-and-david-and-goliath/10/) — Samuel was told: «People look at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart». - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/8-ruth-and-david-and-goliath/11/) — Goliath was a giant Philistine warrior who challenged Israel's army to send one man to fight him, and everyone was afraid. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/8-ruth-and-david-and-goliath/12/) — David refused King Saul's armour and took his sling and five smooth stones, trusting God. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/8-ruth-and-david-and-goliath/14/) — Jonathan, King Saul's son, became David's best friend and protected him from Saul's jealousy. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/8-ruth-and-david-and-goliath/15/) — David had the chance to kill King Saul, who was hunting him, but refused to harm him. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/8-ruth-and-david-and-goliath/16/) — Christians differ on whether every detail of these books is exact history; the lessons are agreed, the details are disputed. - ← previous: [The Ten Commandments](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/7-the-ten-commandments/) - next →: [King David and King Solomon](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/9-king-david-and-king-solomon/) - ↑ back to [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/)