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title: Boaz protected Ruth, left extra grain for her and later married her. — Ruth, and David and Goliath · tree and pragmatics
description: Boaz protected Ruth, left extra grain for her and later married her. Who acts: Boaz. 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 8

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Boaz protected Ruth, left extra grain for her and later married her.

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**Who acts:** Boaz · **What happens:** protect, leave, marry · **To what, where:** Ruth, extra grain

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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 (Boaz), 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:8
# text = Boaz protected Ruth, left extra grain for her and later married her.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1
1	Boaz	Boaz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	protected	protect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Ruth	Ruth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
6	extra	extra	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	12	advmod	_	_
12	married	marry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=5:conj
13	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **protect** | past | Boaz |  | Ruth |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ruth=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **leave** | past | Boaz *not said here* | extra grain |  |  |  | for Ruth | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent grain=Theme for she=Recipient |
| 3 | **marry** | past | Boaz *not said here* | Ruth |  |  |  | late *property* | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |

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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:8`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×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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