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title: The law of Moses made people pay for damage they caused (Exodus 21:3… — Owning up: the broken vase and the lost library… · tree and pragmatics
description: The law of Moses made people pay for damage they caused (Exodus 21:33-34), and Zacchaeus paid back what he owed (Luke 19:8). Who acts: law, people, Zacchaeus. A sentence of the lesson «Owning up: the broken vase and the lost library book» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with i
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# Owning up: the broken vase and the lost library book, sentence 8

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The law of Moses made people pay for damage they caused (Exodus 21:33-34), and Zacchaeus paid back what he owed (Luke 19:8).

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**Who acts:** law, people, Zacchaeus · **What happens:** make, pay, cause, pay back, owe · **To what, where:** people, Exodus, Luke

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Owning up: the broken vase and the lost library book» 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 (law, people, Zacchaeus), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:089-owning-up-the-broken-vase-and-the-lost-library-book.lesson:8
# text = The law of Moses made people pay for damage they caused (Exodus 21:33-34), and Zacchaeus paid back what he owed (Luke 19:8).
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 089-owning-up-the-broken-vase-and-the-lost-library-book.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): no change
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Moses	Moses	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
7	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	damage	damage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	caused	cause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
13	Exodus	exodus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	21:33-34	21:33-34	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	flat	_	_
15	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	Zacchaeus	Zacchaeus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	paid	pay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
20	back	back	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	19	obj	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	owed	owe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	25	punct	_	_
25	Luke	luke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	19:8	19:8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	flat	_	_
27	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	25	punct	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **make** | past | the law of Moses |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pay** | infinitive | the law of Moses *not said here* | people |  |  |  | for damage | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent people=Asset for damage=Theme |
| 3 | **cause** | past | people | Exodus |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition exodus=Patient |
| 4 | **pay back** | past | Zacchaeus |  |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Asset |
| 5 | **owe** | past | Zacchaeus | Luke |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent luke=Theme |

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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:089-owning-up-the-broken-vase-and-the-lost-library-book.lesson:8`.

**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): no change. **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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