--- title: "Like clouds and wind without rain is one who boasts of gifts never… — Pretend, cover stories and lies that become habits · tree and pragmatics description: "Like clouds and wind without rain is one who boasts of gifts never given" (Proverbs 25:14). Who acts: clouds. A sentence of the lesson «Pretend, cover stories and lies that become habits» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/85-pretend-cover-stories-and-lies-that-become-habits/7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/) / [Pretend, cover stories and lies that b…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/85-pretend-cover-stories-and-lies-that-become-habits/) / 7 # Pretend, cover stories and lies that become habits, sentence 7 "Like clouds and wind without rain is one who boasts of gifts never given" (Proverbs 25:14). **Who acts:** clouds · **What happens:** be, boast, not give · **To what, where:** Proverbs, gifts 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 (clouds), 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:7 # text = "Like clouds and wind without rain is one who boasts of gifts never given" (Proverbs 25:14). # 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 `` _ 9 punct _ _ 2 Like like ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 clouds cloud NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 6 without without ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 rain rain NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nmod 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 9 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 10 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 11 nsubj _ _ 11 boasts boast VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 gifts gift NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 14 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 15 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 acl _ _ 16 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 17 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 18 punct _ _ 18 Proverbs proverb NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 19 25:14 25:14 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 18 nmod _ _ 20 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct 21 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | clouds rain and wind | | | | | without one | tree rules | | 2 | **boast** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present | | Proverbs 25:14 | | | | of gifts | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **not** **give** *in a quote* | participle | | gifts *not said here* | | | | | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | 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:7`. **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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