--- title: "Stand up in the presence of the aged, show respect for the elderly"… — Kind truths: honesty with a gentle voice · tree and pragmatics description: "Stand up in the presence of the aged, show respect for the elderly" (Leviticus 19:32); older people learn new technology well when helped patiently. Who acts: you, older people. 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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 (you, older people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:084-kind-truths-honesty-with-a-gentle-voice.lesson:16 # text = "Stand up in the presence of the aged, show respect for the elderly" (Leviticus 19:32); older people learn new technology well when helped patiently. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 084-kind-truths-honesty-with-a-gentle-voice.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Stand stand VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 up up ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 presence presence NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 aged aged ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 nmod _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct 11 show show VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 12 respect respect NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 13 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 elderly elderly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 nmod _ _ 16 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 17 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 18 punct _ _ 18 Leviticus Leviticus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ _ 19 19:32 19:32 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 18 flat _ _ 20 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 18 punct _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 older old ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 23 amod _ _ 23 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 24 learn learn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 25 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 technology technology NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 24 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:advmod 28 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 29 advmod _ _ 29 helped help VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 advcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 patiently patiently ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stand up** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | the presence of the aged | | | tree rules | | 2 | **show** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | respect | | | | for the elderly | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent respect=Recipient | | 3 | **learn** | present | older people | new technology | | | | well *property* | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent technology=Topic | | 4 | **help** | participle | older people *not said here* | | | | | patiently *property* | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | 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:084-kind-truths-honesty-with-a-gentle-voice.lesson:16`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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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