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title: Small cheating trains the habit, and honest work trains honesty: "Wh… — Cheating at school: copying and peeking · tree and pragmatics
description: Small cheating trains the habit, and honest work trains honesty: "Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much" (Luke 16:10). Who acts: Small cheating, honest work. A sentence of the lesson «Cheating at school: copying and peeking» of the religion ethics course of Mova's pri
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# Cheating at school: copying and peeking, sentence 3

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Small cheating trains the habit, and honest work trains honesty: "Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much" (Luke 16:10).

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**Who acts:** Small cheating, honest work · **What happens:** train, trust · **To what, where:** habit, honesty, Whoever · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Cheating at school: copying and peeking» 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 (Small cheating, honest work), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:092-cheating-at-school-copying-and-peeking.lesson:3
# text = Small cheating trains the habit, and honest work trains honesty: "Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much" (Luke 16:10).
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 092-cheating-at-school-copying-and-peeking.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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	cheating	cheating	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger
3	trains	train	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	habit	habit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	trains	train	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	honesty	honesty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
14	Whoever	whoever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	trusted	trust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	parataxis	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	very	very	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:obl|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:Degree=Pos
21	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
22	also	also	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	trusted	trust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	obl	_	_
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
28	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	29	punct	_	_
29	Luke	Luke	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	_
30	16:10	16:10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	29	flat	_	_
31	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	29	punct	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **train** | present | Small cheating | the habit |  |  |  |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent habit=Theme |
| 2 | **train** | present | honest work | honesty |  |  |  |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honesty=Theme |
| 3 | **trust** *in a quote* | can · passive |  | Whoever |  |  |  | with little | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: subject=Recipient with little=Theme |
| 4 | **trust** *in a quote* | can · passive |  |  |  |  |  | with much | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: with much=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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**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 ×1, 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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