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title: Most faiths prize truth highly and allow at most narrow exceptions:… — Pretend, cover stories and lies that become habits · tree and pragmatics
description: Most faiths prize truth highly and allow at most narrow exceptions: Islam and Judaism both allow softening the truth only to make peace between people who have fallen out. Who acts: Most faiths, Islam, people. A sentence of the lesson «Pretend, cover stories and lies that become habits» of the relig
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# Pretend, cover stories and lies that become habits, sentence 16

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Most faiths prize truth highly and allow at most narrow exceptions: Islam and Judaism both allow softening the truth only to make peace between people who have fallen out.

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**Who acts:** Most faiths, Islam, people · **What happens:** prize, allow, soften, make, fall out · **To what, where:** truth, most narrow exceptions, peace

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Pretend, cover stories and lies that become habits» 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 (Most faiths, Islam, people), 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:16
# text = Most faiths prize truth highly and allow at most narrow exceptions: Islam and Judaism both allow softening the truth only to make peace between people who have fallen out.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	amod	_	_
2	faiths	faith	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	prize	prize	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	highly	highly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	allow	allow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	amod	_	_
10	narrow	narrow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	exceptions	exception	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
13	Islam	Islam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=13:cc
15	Judaism	Judaism	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	both	both	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	allow	allow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
18	softening	soften	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	xcomp	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	only	only	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:advmod
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
24	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
25	between	between	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
27	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
28	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	26	acl:relcl	_	_
30	out	out	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prize** | present | Most faiths | truth |  |  |  | highly *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer truth=Stimulus |
| 2 | **allow** | present | Most faiths *not said here* |  |  | most narrow exceptions |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer |
| 3 | **allow** | present | Islam and Judaism |  |  |  |  | both *property* | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **soften** *not said to happen* | gerund | Islam and Judaism *not said here* | the truth |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent truth=Patient |
| 5 | **make** | to-infinitive | Islam and Judaism *not said here* | peace |  |  |  | between people | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset peace=Product |
| 6 | **fall out** | present · perfect | people |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:085-pretend-cover-stories-and-lies-that-become-habits.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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