--- title: "Have nothing to do with a false charge and do not put an innocent o… — Owning up when it is hard · tree and pragmatics description: "Have nothing to do with a false charge and do not put an innocent or honest person to death" (Exodus 23:7): letting someone be punished for you is false witness by silence. Who acts: someone, letting. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (someone, letting), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:091-owning-up-when-it-is-hard.lesson:14 # text = "Have nothing to do with a false charge and do not put an innocent or honest person to death" (Exodus 23:7): letting someone be punished for you is false witness by silence. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 091-owning-up-when-it-is-hard.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 ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Have have VERB VBP Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 2 obj _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 acl _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 false false ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 charge charge NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 11 do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 12 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 13 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:advcl 14 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 15 innocent innocent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 16 or or CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 honest honest ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 conj _ _ 18 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 21 " " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 22 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 23 punct _ _ 23 Exodus exodus NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 24 23:7 23:7 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 23 flat _ _ 25 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 23 punct _ _ 26 : : PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 27 letting let VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 35 csubj _ _ 28 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 27 obj _ _ 29 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 30 aux:pass _ _ 30 punished punish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 xcomp _ _ 31 for for ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 30 obl _ _ 33 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 34 false false ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 witness witness NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ _ 36 by by ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 silence silence NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** *in a quote* | present | | nothing | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **do** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | nothing *not said here* | | | | with a false charge | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **not** **put** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support | | | a innocent person | | | to death | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent person=Goal | | 4 | **let** | gerund | | someone | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **punish** | infinitive · passive | someone *not said here* | | | | | for you | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: for you=Theme | | 6 | **is a** | present | letting | false witness | | | | by silence | tree rules | 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. **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:091-owning-up-when-it-is-hard.lesson:14`. **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 ×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/). - ← previous: [Owning up when it is hard, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/91-owning-up-when-it-is-hard/13/) - next →: [Owning up when it is hard, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/91-owning-up-when-it-is-hard/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/91-owning-up-when-it-is-hard/)