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title: The Bible asks us to speak "the truth in love" (Ephesians 4:15). — White lies: the ugly jumper and the bad drawing · tree and pragmatics
description: The Bible asks us to speak "the truth in love" (Ephesians 4:15). Who acts: Bible. A sentence of the lesson «White lies: the ugly jumper and the bad drawing» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# White lies: the ugly jumper and the bad drawing, sentence 7

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The Bible asks us to speak "the truth in love" (Ephesians 4:15).

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**Who acts:** Bible · **What happens:** ask, speak · **To what, where:** us, truth, love · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «White lies: the ugly jumper and the bad drawing» 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 (Bible), 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:7
# text = The Bible asks us to speak "the truth in love" (Ephesians 4:15).
# 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): no change
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Bible	Bible	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
13	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
14	Ephesians	Ephesians	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	dep	_	_
15	4:15	4:15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	flat	_	_
16	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
17	.	.	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 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | the Bible |  | us |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent we=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Bible *not said here* | the truth |  | love |  |  | 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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**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:7`.

**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): no change. **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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