--- title: Christians ask whether words are meant to mislead, not only whether… — Kind truths: honesty with a gentle voice · tree and pragmatics description: Christians ask whether words are meant to mislead, not only whether they are technically true: "Let your 'Yes' be 'Yes'" (Matthew 5:37). 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:084-kind-truths-honesty-with-a-gentle-voice.lesson:8 # text = Christians ask whether words are meant to mislead, not only whether they are technically true: "Let your 'Yes' be 'Yes'" (Matthew 5:37). # 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): R6-punct-agree ×4, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Christians Christian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 ask ask VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 3 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 4 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj:pass _ _ 5 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 6 meant mean VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 ccomp _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 mislead mislead VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 11 advmod _ _ 11 only only ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 12 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 13 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 14 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 15 technically technically ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 advcl _ _ 17 : : PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 18 " " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ _ 19 Let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 20 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 21 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct 22 Yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 19 obj _ _ 23 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct 24 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 26 cop _ _ 25 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct 26 Yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 19 xcomp _ _ 27 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct 28 " " PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ 29 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 30 punct _ _ 30 Matthew Matthew PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 parataxis _ _ 31 5:37 5:37 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 30 flat _ _ 32 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 30 punct _ _ 33 . . 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 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | Christians | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **mean** | present · passive | | words | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **mislead** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | Christians *= christian* | | | | | technically, true *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | tree rules | 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:8`. **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 ×4, R8-pos-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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