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title: Two women claimed one baby; Solomon ordered it cut in half, and the… — King David and King Solomon · tree and pragmatics
description: Two women claimed one baby; Solomon ordered it cut in half, and the true mother gave it up to save its life. Who acts: Two women, Solomon, true mother. A sentence of the lesson «King David and King Solomon» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# King David and King Solomon, sentence 11

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Two women claimed one baby; Solomon ordered it cut in half, and the true mother gave it up to save its life.

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**Who acts:** Two women, Solomon, true mother · **What happens:** claim, order, cut, give up, save · **To what, where:** one baby, baby, half, life

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This is a sentence of the lesson «King David and King Solomon» 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 (Two women, Solomon, true mother), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:009-king-david-and-king-solomon.lesson:11
# text = Two women claimed one baby; Solomon ordered it cut in half, and the true mother gave it up to save its life.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 009-king-david-and-king-solomon.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 ×1
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	claimed	claim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	Solomon	Solomon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	xcomp	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	10	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
23	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **claim** *speech: other* | past | Two women | one baby |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent baby=Topic |
| 2 | **order** | past | Solomon |  | baby |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent it=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **cut** *not said to happen* | participle | Solomon *not said here* |  |  | half |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **give up** | past | the true mother | baby |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Source |
| 5 | **save** | to-infinitive | the true mother *not said here* | baby's life |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=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:009-king-david-and-king-solomon.lesson:11`.

**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 ×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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