--- title: If a parent asks you to lie, the vicar says: "Honour your parents (E… — Pretend, cover stories and lies that become habits · tree and pragmatics description: If a parent asks you to lie, the vicar says: "Honour your parents (Exodus 20:12), yet our first obedience is to God, who asks truthfulness of us (Acts 5:29)." Who acts: parent, vicar, first obedience, God. 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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 (parent, vicar, first obedience, God), 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:9 # text = If a parent asks you to lie, the vicar says: "Honour your parents (Exodus 20:12), yet our first obedience is to God, who asks truthfulness of us (Acts 5:29)." # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 parent parent NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 5 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 lie lie VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 vicar vicar NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 14 Honour honour VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 11 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:parataxis 15 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 17 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 18 punct _ _ 18 Exodus exodus NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 appos _ _ 19 20:12 20:12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 18 flat _ _ 20 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 18 punct _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 22 yet yet CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 23 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 24 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 25 amod _ _ 25 obedience obedience NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 27 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 ccomp _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 31 nsubj _ _ 31 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 acl:relcl _ _ 32 truthfulness truthfulness NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 32 nmod _ _ 35 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 36 punct _ _ 36 Acts act NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 appos _ _ 37 5:29 5:29 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 36 flat _ _ 38 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 36 punct _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 28 punct _ _ 40 " " PUNCT '' _ 28 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* *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a parent | | you | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **lie** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a parent *not said here* | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the vicar | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **honour** *in a quote* | infinitive | | your parents | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | our first obedience | | | | | to God | tree rules | | 6 | **ask** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | present | God | truthfulness of us | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truthfulness=Recipient | | 7 | **obey** *in a quote* | | our | | | | | | nom obedience «act transitive»: poss=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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:religion-ethics:085-pretend-cover-stories-and-lies-that-become-habits.lesson:9`. **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): R7-rel-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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