--- title: Christians are told to go to a friend privately first (Matthew 18:15… — Kind truths: honesty with a gentle voice · tree and pragmatics description: Christians are told to go to a friend privately first (Matthew 18:15) and to "encourage one another and build each other up" (1 Thessalonians 5:11), so honesty and love travel together. Who acts: Christians, 1 Thessalonians. 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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, 1 Thessalonians), 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:3 # text = Christians are told to go to a friend privately first (Matthew 18:15) and to "encourage one another and build each other up" (1 Thessalonians 5:11), so honesty and love travel together. # 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 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 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 privately privately ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 10 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 5 advmod _ _ 11 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 12 punct _ _ 12 Matthew Matthew PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 13 18:15 18:15 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 12 flat _ _ 14 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 12 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 17 " " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ _ 18 encourage encourage VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:xcomp 19 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 obj _ _ 20 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 19 fixed _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 build build VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 conj _ _ 23 each each DET DT ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp 22 obj _ _ 24 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 fixed _ _ 25 up up ADP RP _ 22 compound:prt _ _ 26 " " PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=37:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 27 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 29 punct _ _ 28 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 29 nummod _ _ 29 Thessalonians thessalonian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 37 nsubj _ _ 30 5:11 5:11 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 29 flat _ _ 31 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 29 punct _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 33 so so ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 34 honesty honesty NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 conj _ _ 37 travel travel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 38 together together ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · passive | | Christians | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Christians *not said here* | | | | | to a friend; first, privately *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to friend=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **encourage** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Christians *not said here* | one | | | | | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | | 4 | **build up** *in a quote* | infinitive | Christians *not said here* | each | | | | | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer each=Patient | | 5 | **travel** | present | 1 Thessalonians | | | | | together *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:3`. **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. **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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