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title: "Do not put a stumbling block in front of the blind" (Leviticus 19:1… — Honesty with money: too much change and the foun… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Do not put a stumbling block in front of the blind" (Leviticus 19:14): when you sell something, tell the buyer about problems that affect their safety. Who acts: you, buyer, problems. A sentence of the lesson «Honesty with money: too much change and the found wallet» of the religion ethics course o
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# Honesty with money: too much change and the found wallet, sentence 18

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"Do not put a stumbling block in front of the blind" (Leviticus 19:14): when you sell something, tell the buyer about problems that affect their safety.

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**Who acts:** you, buyer, problems · **What happens:** not put, sell, tell, affect · **To what, where:** stumbling block, front, something, safety · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Honesty with money: too much change and the found wallet» 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 (you, buyer, problems), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:095-honesty-with-money-too-much-change-and-the-found-wallet.lesson:18
# text = "Do not put a stumbling block in front of the blind" (Leviticus 19:14): when you sell something, tell the buyer about problems that affect their safety.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 095-honesty-with-money-too-much-change-and-the-found-wallet.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
2	Do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	stumbling	stumble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger
7	block	block	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	nmod	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
14	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	15	punct	_	_
15	Leviticus	Leviticus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:appos
16	19:14	19:14	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	flat	_	_
17	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	15	punct	_	_
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
19	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	sell	sell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:advcl
22	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	21	obj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	buyer	buyer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	about	about	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	problems	problem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
29	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
30	affect	affect	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
31	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	safety	safety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **not** **put** *in a quote* | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* | a stumbling block |  | front of the blind |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **sell** | present | you | something |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | the buyer |  |  |  |  | about problems | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent about problem=Topic |
| 4 | **affect** | present | problems | ups's safety |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus safety=Experiencer |

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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:095-honesty-with-money-too-much-change-and-the-found-wallet.lesson:18`.

**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 ×2, R7-rel-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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