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title: You can forgive fully and still be careful: Jesus taught to forgive… — Trust that breaks and takes long to mend · tree and pragmatics
description: You can forgive fully and still be careful: Jesus taught to forgive "seventy-seven times" (Matthew 18:22) and to be "as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves" (Matthew 10:16). Who acts: You, Jesus, Matthew. A sentence of the lesson «Trust that breaks and takes long to mend» of the religion ethic
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# Trust that breaks and takes long to mend, sentence 10

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You can forgive fully and still be careful: Jesus taught to forgive "seventy-seven times" (Matthew 18:22) and to be "as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves" (Matthew 10:16).

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**Who acts:** You, Jesus, Matthew · **What happens:** forgive, be, teach · **To what, where:** Matthew · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Trust that breaks and takes long to mend» 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, Jesus, Matthew), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:082-trust-that-breaks-and-takes-long-to-mend.lesson:10
# text = You can forgive fully and still be careful: Jesus taught to forgive "seventy-seven times" (Matthew 18:22) and to be "as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves" (Matthew 10:16).
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 082-trust-that-breaks-and-takes-long-to-mend.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	forgive	forgive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	fully	fully	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	still	still	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
8	careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	Jesus	Jesus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	taught	teach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	forgive	forgive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
15	seventy	seventy	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	_
17	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:obl:unmarked
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
20	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	21	punct	_	_
21	Matthew	matthew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
22	18:22	18:22	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	flat	_	_
23	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	21	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	cop	_	_
27	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	_
28	as	as	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
29	shrewd	shrewd	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
30	as	as	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	snakes	snake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	as	as	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=34:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
34	innocent	innocent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	conj	_	_
35	as	as	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	doves	dove	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	_
37	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	36	punct	_	_
38	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	39	punct	_	_
39	Matthew	matthew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	_
40	10:16	10:16	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	39	flat	_	_
41	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	39	punct	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **forgive** | can | You |  |  |  |  | fully *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | infinitive | You *not said here* |  |  |  | still | careful *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **teach** *speech: other* | past | Jesus | Matthew |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **forgive** | to-infinitive | Matthew *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | You *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as snakes; shrewd *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** *in a quote* |  | You *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as doves and Matthew | 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4. **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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