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title: You have been faithful with a few things" (Matthew 25:21): tell even… — Keeping promises · tree and pragmatics
description: You have been faithful with a few things" (Matthew 25:21): tell even if no one would find out you slipped. Who acts: You, one. A sentence of the lesson «Keeping promises» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Keeping promises, sentence 14

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You have been faithful with a few things" (Matthew 25:21): tell even if no one would find out you slipped.

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**Who acts:** You, one · **What happens:** be, tell, find out, slip · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Keeping promises» 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 (You, one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:086-keeping-promises.lesson:14
# text = You have been faithful with a few things" (Matthew 25:21): tell even if no one would find out you slipped.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 086-keeping-promises.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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	cop	_	_
4	faithful	faithful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
10	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
11	Matthew	matthew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
12	25:21	25:21	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	flat	_	_
13	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
15	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
16	even	even	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:advmod
17	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	19	det	_	_
19	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
22	out	out	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	slipped	slip	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	ccomp	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: warn
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present · perfect | You |  |  |  |  | with a few things; faithful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **find out** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | would | no one |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **slip** *in a quote* | past | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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:086-keeping-promises.lesson:14`.

**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, R7-rel-agree ×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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