--- title: Christians are asked to speak "the truth in love" (Ephesians 4:15):… — White lies: the ugly jumper and the bad drawing · tree and pragmatics description: Christians are asked to speak "the truth in love" (Ephesians 4:15): honest words said gently, at the right time, for the good of the listener. Who acts: Christians. 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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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:083-white-lies-the-ugly-jumper-and-the-bad-drawing.lesson:4 # text = Christians are asked to speak "the truth in love" (Ephesians 4:15): honest words said gently, at the right time, for the good of the listener. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 083-white-lies-the-ugly-jumper-and-the-bad-drawing.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 3 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 asked ask VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 speak speak VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct 12 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 13 punct _ _ 13 Ephesians ephesian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 8 appos _ _ 14 4:15 4:15 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 flat _ _ 15 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 13 punct _ _ 16 : : PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 17 honest honest ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj:pass _ _ 19 said say VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 conj _ _ 20 gently gently ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 22 at at ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 for for ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 good good NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 listener listener NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: changed voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present · passive | | Christians | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **speak** *speech: other* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Christians *not said here* | the truth | | love | | | tree rules | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | participle · passive | | honest words | | | time | for the good of the listener; gently *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | 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:083-white-lies-the-ugly-jumper-and-the-bad-drawing.lesson:4`. **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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