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title: "If your brother sins, go and point out their fault, just between th… — Good secrets and bad secrets · tree and pragmatics
description: "If your brother sins, go and point out their fault, just between the two of you" (Matthew 18:15): give a sibling a short chance to own up, and offer to go with them. Who acts: brother, you, rules. A sentence of the lesson «Good secrets and bad secrets» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primar
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# Good secrets and bad secrets, sentence 17

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"If your brother sins, go and point out their fault, just between the two of you" (Matthew 18:15): give a sibling a short chance to own up, and offer to go with them.

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**Who acts:** brother, you, rules · **What happens:** sin, go, point out, give, own up, offer · **To what, where:** fault, short chance, sibling · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Good secrets and bad secrets» 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 (brother, you, rules), 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:17
# text = "If your brother sins, go and point out their fault, just between the two of you" (Matthew 18:15): give a sibling a short chance to own up, and offer to go with them.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	sins	sin	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	point	point	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	fault	fault	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	just	just	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
15	between	between	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nmod	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	_
21	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	22	punct	_	_
22	Matthew	Matthew	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
23	18:15	18:15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	flat	_	_
24	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	22	punct	_	_
25	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
26	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	sibling	sibling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	iobj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:obj
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	own	own	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	acl	_	_
34	up	up	ADP	RP	_	33	compound:prt	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	offer	offer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	xcomp	_	_
40	with	with	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	obl	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sin** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | your brother |  |  |  |  |  | vn rebel-71.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **go** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | between the two of you | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **point out** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | rules's fault |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fault=Patient |
| 4 | **give** | infinitive |  | a short chance | a sibling |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent sibling=Recipient chance=Theme |
| 5 | **own up** | to-infinitive |  | a short chance *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 6 | **offer** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with rules *= rule* | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with they=Beneficiary |
| 8 | **fault** *in a quote* |  | rules *= rule* |  |  |  |  |  | nom fault «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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**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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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