--- title: Christians believe God cannot lie (Titus 1:2) and Jesus called himse… — Why honesty matters: trust holds everything toge… · tree and pragmatics description: Christians believe God cannot lie (Titus 1:2) and Jesus called himself "the way and the truth and the life" (John 14:6). Who acts: Christians, God, Jesus. A sentence of the lesson «Why honesty matters: trust holds everything together» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its d --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/81-why-honesty-matters-trust-holds-everything-together/16/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/) / [Why honesty matters: trust holds every…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/81-why-honesty-matters-trust-holds-everything-together/) / 16 # Why honesty matters: trust holds everything together, sentence 16 Christians believe God cannot lie (Titus 1:2) and Jesus called himself "the way and the truth and the life" (John 14:6). **Who acts:** Christians, God, Jesus · **What happens:** believe, not lie, call · **To what, where:** Jesus · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Why honesty matters: trust holds everything together» 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 (Christians, God, Jesus), 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:16 # text = Christians believe God cannot lie (Titus 1:2) and Jesus called himself "the way and the truth and the life" (John 14:6). # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Christians Christian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 believe believe VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 6 lie lie VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 ccomp _ _ 7 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 8 punct _ _ 8 Titus Titus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ _ 9 1:2 1:2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 flat _ _ 10 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 8 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 Jesus Jesus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 called call VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 14 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 13 obj _ _ 15 " " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 xcomp _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 24 " " PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct 25 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 26 punct _ _ 26 John John PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 parataxis _ _ 27 14:6 14:6 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 26 flat _ _ 28 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 26 punct _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **believe** | present | Christians | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **not** **lie** | can | God | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **call** | past | Jesus | Jesus | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient | 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:16`. **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): R6-punct-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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