--- title: Christians believe God is truthful and cannot lie (Titus 1:2), and t… — Why honesty matters: trust holds everything toge… · tree and pragmatics description: Christians believe God is truthful and cannot lie (Titus 1:2), and the commandment "You shall not bear false witness against your neighbour" (Exodus 20:16) guards the trust between neighbours. Who acts: Christians, God, You, commandment. 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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 (Christians, God, You, commandment), 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:3 # text = Christians believe God is truthful and cannot lie (Titus 1:2), and the commandment "You shall not bear false witness against your neighbour" (Exodus 20:16) guards the trust between neighbours. # 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 ×2 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 5 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 truthful truthful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 ccomp _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 7 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 8 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 9 lie lie VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 10 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 11 punct _ _ 11 Titus Titus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 parataxis _ _ 12 1:2 1:2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 flat _ _ 13 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 11 punct _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 commandment commandment NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 18 " " PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ _ 19 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 20 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 21 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 22 advmod _ _ 22 bear bear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 parataxis _ _ 23 false false ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 witness witness NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 against against ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 neighbour neighbour NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 28 " " PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct 29 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 30 punct _ _ 30 Exodus exodus NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 dep _ _ 31 20:16 20:16 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 30 flat _ _ 32 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 30 punct _ _ 33 guards guard VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 trust trust NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 36 between between ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 neighbours neighbour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nmod _ _ 38 . . 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 | | 2 | **is** | present | God | | | | | truthful *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **lie** | can | God *not said here* | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **not** **bear** *in a quote* | shall | You | false witness | | | | against your neighbour | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witness=Patient | | 5 | **guard** | present | the commandment | the trust | | | | between neighbours | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trust=Beneficiary | 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:3`. **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 ×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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