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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 (Honest shops, buyers, Proverbs, Lord), 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:15 # text = Honest shops last because buyers come back; Proverbs 11:1 says, "The Lord detests dishonest scales, but accurate weights find favour with him." # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Honest honest ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 shops shop NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 last last VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 4 because because SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 5 buyers buyer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 6 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 7 back back ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 Proverbs proverb NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 10 11:1 11:1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 flat _ _ 11 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ _ 14 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 Lord Lord PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 detests detest VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 ccomp _ _ 17 dishonest dishonest ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 scales scale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 but but CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 accurate accurate ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 weights weight NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 find find VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 24 favour favour NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 25 with with ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ 28 " " PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **last** | present | Honest shops | | | | | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **come back** | present | buyers | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Proverbs | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **detest** *in a quote* | present | the Lord | dishonest scales | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer scale=Stimulus | | 5 | **find** *in a quote* | present | accurate weights | favour | | | | with Lord | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent favour=Topic | 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:15`. **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): 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. 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