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title: Goliath was a giant Philistine warrior who challenged Israel's army… — Ruth, and David and Goliath · tree and pragmatics
description: Goliath was a giant Philistine warrior who challenged Israel's army to send one man to fight him, and everyone was afraid. Who acts: Goliath, giant Philistine warrior, everyone. A sentence of the lesson «Ruth, and David and Goliath» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dep
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# Ruth, and David and Goliath, sentence 11

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Goliath was a giant Philistine warrior who challenged Israel's army to send one man to fight him, and everyone was afraid.

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**Who acts:** Goliath, giant Philistine warrior, everyone · **What happens:** be, challenge, send, fight · **To what, where:** giant Philistine warrior, army, one man, man

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Ruth, and David and Goliath» 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 (Goliath, giant Philistine warrior, everyone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:008-ruth-and-david-and-goliath.lesson:11
# text = Goliath was a giant Philistine warrior who challenged Israel's army to send one man to fight him, and everyone was afraid.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 008-ruth-and-david-and-goliath.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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Goliath	Goliath	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	Philistine	philistine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	warrior	warrior	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	challenged	challenge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:advcl
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	fight	fight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:acl
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	23	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **is a** | past | Goliath | a giant Philistine warrior |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **challenge** | past | a giant Philistine warrior | Israel's army |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **send** | to-infinitive | a giant Philistine warrior *not said here* | one man |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme |
| 4 | **fight** | to-infinitive | a giant Philistine warrior *not said here* | man |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent |
| 5 | **is** | past | everyone |  |  |  |  | afraid *property* | tree rules |

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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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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