--- title: Jesus taught, "Let your 'Yes' be 'Yes', and your 'No', 'No'" (Matthe… — Why honesty matters: trust holds everything toge… · tree and pragmatics description: Jesus taught, "Let your 'Yes' be 'Yes', and your 'No', 'No'" (Matthew 5:37): an honest person's plain word is enough, without "I swear" or "no cap" ("no cap" is slang for "no lie", and "cap" means a lie). Who acts: Jesus, Plato, cap, slang. 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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 (Jesus, Plato, cap, slang), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:081-why-honesty-matters-trust-holds-everything-together.lesson:11 # text = Jesus taught, "Let your 'Yes' be 'Yes', and your 'No', 'No'" (Matthew 5:37): an honest person's plain word is enough, without "I swear" or "no cap" ("no cap" is slang for "no lie", and "cap" means a lie). # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 081-why-honesty-matters-trust-holds-everything-together.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×5, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Jesus Jesus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 taught teach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 5 Let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 ccomp _ _ 6 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:obj 7 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct 8 Yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 5 discourse _ _ 9 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct 10 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 11 cop _ _ 11 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 12 Yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 5 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:discourse 13 ', ', PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 conj _ _ 16 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ _ 17 No no DET DT PronType=Neg 18 det _ _ 18 ', ', PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ 19 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ _ 20 No no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 19 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:conj|HaikuPos=DET:DT:PronType=Neg 21 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ 22 " " PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ 23 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 24 punct _ _ 24 Matthew matthew NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 appos _ _ 25 5:37 5:37 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 24 flat _ _ 26 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 24 punct _ _ 27 : : PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 28 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 honest honest ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod:poss _ _ 31 's 's PART POS _ 30 case _ _ 32 plain plain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 34 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 cop _ _ 35 enough enough ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 37 without without SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 38 " " PUNCT `` _ 40 punct _ _ 39 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 swear swear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 conj _ _ 41 " " PUNCT '' _ 40 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=40:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 42 or or CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 43 " " PUNCT `` _ 45 punct _ _ 44 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 45 det _ _ 45 cap cap NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 conj _ _ 46 " " PUNCT '' _ 45 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=64:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 47 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 53 punct _ _ 48 " " PUNCT `` _ 50 punct _ _ 49 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 50 det _ _ 50 cap cap NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=53:compound 51 " " PUNCT '' _ 50 punct _ _ 52 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 53 cop _ _ 53 slang slang NOUN NN Number=Sing 64 nsubj _ _ 54 for for ADP IN _ 57 case _ _ 55 " " PUNCT `` _ 57 punct _ _ 56 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 57 det _ _ 57 lie lie NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=53:nmod 58 " " PUNCT '' _ 57 punct _ _ 59 , , PUNCT , _ 62 punct _ _ 60 and and CCONJ CC _ 62 cc _ _ 61 " " PUNCT `` _ 62 punct _ _ 62 cap cap NOUN NN Number=Sing 64 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=53:parataxis 63 " " PUNCT '' _ 62 punct _ _ 64 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 45 acl _ _ 65 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 66 det _ _ 66 lie lie NOUN NN Number=Sing 64 obj _ _ 67 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 64 punct _ _ 68 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=decl, act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **teach** *speech: other* | past | Jesus | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Plato | | | | | enough, swear *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | present | no cap | slang | | | | for no lie | tree rules | | 5 | **mean** | present | slang | a lie | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lie=Topic | | 6 | **word** | | a honest person | | | | | | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:religion-ethics:081-why-honesty-matters-trust-holds-everything-together.lesson:11`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×5, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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. 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