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description: Paul wrote, "Put off falsehood and speak truthfully to your neighbour, for we are all members of one body" (Ephesians 4:25). Who acts: Paul, we. A sentence of the lesson «Why honesty matters: trust holds everything together» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency 
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# Why honesty matters: trust holds everything together, sentence 7

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Paul wrote, "Put off falsehood and speak truthfully to your neighbour, for we are all members of one body" (Ephesians 4:25).

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**Who acts:** Paul, we · **What happens:** write, put off, speak, be · **To what, where:** Ephesians, falsehood, members · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Paul, we), 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:7
# text = Paul wrote, "Put off falsehood and speak truthfully to your neighbour, for we are all members of one body" (Ephesians 4:25).
# 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
1	Paul	Paul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wrote	write	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
6	off	off	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	falsehood	falsehood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
10	truthfully	truthfully	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:advmod
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	all	all	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	members	member	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	advcl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
24	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	25	punct	_	_
25	Ephesians	Ephesians	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
26	4:25	4:25	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	flat	_	_
27	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	25	punct	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | past | Paul | Ephesians |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **put off** *in a quote* | infinitive | Paul *not said here* | falsehood |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent falsehood=Goal |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* *in a quote* | infinitive | Paul *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to your neighbour; truthfully *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to neighbour=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | we | members |  |  |  | of one body; all *property* | tree rules |

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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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**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. **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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