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title: "Defend the weak and the fatherless... rescue the weak and the needy… — Good secrets and bad secrets · tree and pragmatics
description: "Defend the weak and the fatherless... rescue the weak and the needy" (Psalm 82:3-4); a child's safety always comes before a secret. Who acts: you, safety. A sentence of the lesson «Good secrets and bad secrets» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the 
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# Good secrets and bad secrets, sentence 19

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"Defend the weak and the fatherless... rescue the weak and the needy" (Psalm 82:3-4); a child's safety always comes before a secret.

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**Who acts:** you, safety · **What happens:** defend, rescue, come · **To what, where:** weak, secret · **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 (you, safety), 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:19
# text = "Defend the weak and the fatherless... rescue the weak and the needy" (Psalm 82:3-4); a child's safety always comes before a secret.
# 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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Defend	defend	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	weak	weak	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	fatherless	fatherless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
8	...	...	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:::_
9	rescue	rescue	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	weak	weak	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	needy	needy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
16	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	17	punct	_	_
17	Psalm	Psalm	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:appos
18	82:3-4	82:3-4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	flat	_	_
19	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	17	punct	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	's	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	safety	safety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	always	always	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
27	before	before	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	secret	secret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **defend** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | the weak |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **rescue** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | the weak |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weak=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | present | a child's safety |  |  | a secret |  | always *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before secret=Location |

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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:087-good-secrets-and-bad-secrets.lesson:19`.

**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 ×2, R6-punct-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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