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title: David refused King Saul's armour and took his sling and five smooth… — Ruth, and David and Goliath · tree and pragmatics
description: David refused King Saul's armour and took his sling and five smooth stones, trusting God. Who acts: David. A sentence of the lesson «Ruth, and David and Goliath» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ruth, and David and Goliath, sentence 12

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David refused King Saul's armour and took his sling and five smooth stones, trusting God.

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**Who acts:** David · **What happens:** refuse, take, trust · **To what, where:** armour, sling, God

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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 (David), 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:12
# text = David refused King Saul's armour and took his sling and five smooth stones, trusting God.
# 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): no change
1	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	refused	refuse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:desc	_	_
4	Saul	Saul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	armour	armour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	sling	sling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
13	smooth	smooth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	trusting	trust	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
17	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	.	.	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 | **refuse** | past | David | Saul  King's armour |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent armour=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | past | David *not said here* | David's sling and five smooth stones |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sling=Theme |
| 3 | **trust** | gerund | David *not said here* | God |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent god=Theme |

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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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**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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:religion-ethics:008-ruth-and-david-and-goliath.lesson:12`.

**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): no change. **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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