--- title: Jesus spoke strongly about protecting children (Matthew 18:6); child… — Good secrets and bad secrets · tree and pragmatics description: Jesus spoke strongly about protecting children (Matthew 18:6); child safety programmes such as the NSPCC's teach children to tell a trusted adult. Who acts: Jesus, safety programmes, NSPCC. 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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, safety programmes, NSPCC), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:087-good-secrets-and-bad-secrets.lesson:10 # text = Jesus spoke strongly about protecting children (Matthew 18:6); child safety programmes such as the NSPCC's teach children to tell a trusted adult. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 087-good-secrets-and-bad-secrets.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 ×2 1 Jesus Jesus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 spoke speak VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 strongly strongly ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 4 about about SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 5 protecting protect VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:obl 6 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 7 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 8 punct _ _ 8 Matthew Matthew PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 appos _ _ 9 18:6 18:6 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 flat _ _ 10 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 8 punct _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 12 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 safety safety NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 programmes programme NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 15 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 21 case _ _ 16 as as ADP IN _ 15 fixed _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 NSPCC NSPCC PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nmod:poss _ _ 19 's 's PART POS _ 18 case _ _ 20 teach teach VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 21 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 trusted trust ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | Jesus | | | | | strongly *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **protect** | gerund | Jesus *not said here* | | children | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Beneficiary | | 3 | **teach** *speech: other* | present | the NSPCC's safety programmes | | children | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent child=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | the NSPCC's safety programmes *not said here* | | a trusted adult | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient | | 5 | **programme** | | the NSPCC | | | | | | nom programme «communication intransitive»: 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:087-good-secrets-and-bad-secrets.lesson:10`. **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 ×2. **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/). - ← previous: [Good secrets and bad secrets, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/87-good-secrets-and-bad-secrets/9/) - next →: [Good secrets and bad secrets, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/87-good-secrets-and-bad-secrets/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/87-good-secrets-and-bad-secrets/)