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title: The commandment "You shall not bear false witness against your neigh… — Why honesty matters: trust holds everything toge… · tree and pragmatics
description: The commandment "You shall not bear false witness against your neighbour" (Exodus 20:16) guards the trust between neighbours. Who acts: You, commandment. A sentence of the lesson «Why honesty matters: trust holds everything together» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its de
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# Why honesty matters: trust holds everything together, sentence 6

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The commandment "You shall not bear false witness against your neighbour" (Exodus 20:16) guards the trust between neighbours.

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**Who acts:** You, commandment · **What happens:** not bear, guard · **To what, where:** false witness, trust

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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 (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:6
# text = 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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	commandment	commandment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
4	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis
8	false	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	witness	witness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	against	against	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nmod
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct
14	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	15	punct	_	_
15	Exodus	Exodus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
16	20:16	20:16	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	flat	_	_
17	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	15	punct	_	_
18	guards	guard	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	trust	trust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:obj
21	between	between	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **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 |
| 2 | **guard** | present | the commandment | the trust |  |  |  | between neighbours | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trust=Beneficiary |

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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:081-why-honesty-matters-trust-holds-everything-together.lesson:6`.

**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 ×2, R7-rel-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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