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title: "The righteous care for the needs of their animals" (Proverbs 12:10)… — Owning up when it is hard · tree and pragmatics
description: "The righteous care for the needs of their animals" (Proverbs 12:10); when an animal could be hurt, tell straight away so everyone can search. Who acts: everyone. A sentence of the lesson «Owning up when it is hard» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and 
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# Owning up when it is hard, sentence 9

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"The righteous care for the needs of their animals" (Proverbs 12:10); when an animal could be hurt, tell straight away so everyone can search.

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**Who acts:** everyone · **What happens:** hurt, tell, search, need · **To what, where:** animal, animals · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Owning up when it is hard» 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 (everyone), 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:9
# text = "The righteous care for the needs of their animals" (Proverbs 12:10); when an animal could be hurt, tell straight away so everyone can search.
# 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): no change
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	righteous	righteous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	needs	need	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
12	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
13	Proverbs	proverb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	12:10	12:10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	flat	_	_
15	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
17	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
25	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	away	away	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
27	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
28	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	30	nsubj	_	_
29	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	search	search	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp, act=request

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hurt** | could · passive |  | a animal |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **search** | can | everyone |  |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **need** *in a quote* |  |  | needs's animals  Proverbs |  |  |  |  | nom need «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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:091-owning-up-when-it-is-hard.lesson:9`.

**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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