--- title: "Those who flatter their neighbours are spreading nets for their fee… — Pretend, cover stories and lies that become habits · tree and pragmatics description: "Those who flatter their neighbours are spreading nets for their feet" (Proverbs 29:5); empty praise can make people overconfident. Who acts: Those, empty praise. 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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 (Those, empty praise), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:085-pretend-cover-stories-and-lies-that-become-habits.lesson:11 # text = "Those who flatter their neighbours are spreading nets for their feet" (Proverbs 29:5); empty praise can make people overconfident. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 085-pretend-cover-stories-and-lies-that-become-habits.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 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 2 Those that PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 8 nsubj _ _ 3 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 4 nsubj _ _ 4 flatter flatter VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 5 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 neighbours neighbour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 spreading spread VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 parataxis _ _ 9 nets net NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 feet feet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ 14 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 15 punct _ _ 15 Proverbs Proverbs PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 8 parataxis _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:appos|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 16 29:5 29:5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 15 nmod _ _ 17 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 15 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 empty empty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 praise praise NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 21 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 23 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 24 overconfident overconfident ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 xcomp _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 22 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **flatter** *in a quote* | present | | Acts's neighbours | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus neighbour=Experiencer | | 2 | **spread** *in a quote* | present · progressive | Those | nets | | | | for Acts's feet | tree rules | | 3 | **make** | can | empty praise | people | | | | overconfident *property* | 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:085-pretend-cover-stories-and-lies-that-become-habits.lesson:11`. **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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