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title: All you need to say is simply 'Yes' or 'No'" (Matthew 5:34-37); Quak… — Vows, oaths and promises in faith · tree and pragmatics
description: All you need to say is simply 'Yes' or 'No'" (Matthew 5:34-37); Quakers take this literally. Who acts: you, Quakers. A sentence of the lesson «Vows, oaths and promises in faith» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Vows, oaths and promises in faith, sentence 10

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All you need to say is simply 'Yes' or 'No'" (Matthew 5:34-37); Quakers take this literally.

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**Who acts:** you, Quakers · **What happens:** need, say, take · **To what, where:** this · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Vows, oaths and promises in faith» 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, Quakers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:088-vows-oaths-and-promises-in-faith.lesson:10
# text = All you need to say is simply 'Yes' or 'No'" (Matthew 5:34-37); Quakers take this literally.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 088-vows-oaths-and-promises-in-faith.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 ×3, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	nsubj	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	parataxis	_	_
7	simply	simply	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
8	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct
9	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	14	discourse	_	_
10	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct
13	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	14	det	_	_
14	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
16	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	17	punct	_	_
17	Matthew	Matthew	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	parataxis	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:parataxis|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
18	5:34-37	5:34-37	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nmod	_	_
19	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	Quakers	Quaker	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
22	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
23	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	obj	_	_
24	literally	literally	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=none, voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **take** *in a quote* | present | Quakers | this |  |  |  | literally *property* | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent this=Theme clause=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:088-vows-oaths-and-promises-in-faith.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): R6-punct-agree ×3, R8-pos-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/).

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