--- title: Jesus said, "Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be tru… — Pretend, cover stories and lies that become habits · tree and pragmatics description: Jesus said, "Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much" (Luke 16:10): small honesty is training for big honesty, and small lies are training too. Who acts: Jesus, small honesty, small lies. 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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 (Jesus, small honesty, small lies), 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:3 # text = Jesus said, "Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much" (Luke 16:10): small honesty is training for big honesty, and small lies are training too. # 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 ×2 1 Jesus Jesus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 5 Whoever whoever PRON WP PronType=Rel 8 nsubj:pass _ _ 6 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 7 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 8 aux:pass _ _ 8 trusted trust VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 ccomp _ _ 9 with with ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 very very ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:obl|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:Degree=Pos 12 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 13 also also ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 14 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 15 aux:pass _ _ 15 trusted trust VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 ccomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advcl 16 with with ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 obl _ _ 18 " " PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ _ 19 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 20 punct _ _ 20 Luke luke NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 appos _ _ 21 16:10 16:10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 20 flat _ _ 22 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 20 punct _ _ 23 : : PUNCT : _ 2 punct _ _ 24 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 honesty honesty NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 training train VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 parataxis _ _ 28 for for ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 honesty honesty NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=27:cc 33 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 lies lie NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nsubj _ _ 35 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 training train VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 conj _ _ 37 too too ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 38 . . 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 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Jesus | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **trust** *in a quote* | can · passive | | Whoever | | | | with little | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: subject=Recipient with little=Theme | | 3 | **trust** *in a quote* | can · passive | | | | | | with much | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: with much=Theme | | 4 | **train** | present · progressive | small honesty | | | | | for big honesty | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **train** | present · progressive | small lies | | | | | | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: 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. 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