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title: Swapping price stickers is stealing: "The Lord detests differing wei… — Honest money: earning, raising and paying fairly · tree and pragmatics
description: Swapping price stickers is stealing: "The Lord detests differing weights, and dishonest scales do not please him" (Proverbs 20:23). Who acts: Swapping, Lord, dishonest scales. A sentence of the lesson «Honest money: earning, raising and paying fairly» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary 
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# Honest money: earning, raising and paying fairly, sentence 12

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Swapping price stickers is stealing: "The Lord detests differing weights, and dishonest scales do not please him" (Proverbs 20:23).

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**Who acts:** Swapping, Lord, dishonest scales · **What happens:** swap, steal, detest, differ, not please · **To what, where:** price stickers, differing weights, Lord · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Honest money: earning, raising and paying fairly» 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 (Swapping, Lord, dishonest scales), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:096-honest-money-earning-raising-and-paying-fairly.lesson:12
# text = Swapping price stickers is stealing: "The Lord detests differing weights, and dishonest scales do not please him" (Proverbs 20:23).
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 096-honest-money-earning-raising-and-paying-fairly.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Swapping	swap	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:nsubj
2	price	price	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	stickers	sticker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:cop
5	stealing	steal	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	0	root	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
8	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	detests	detest	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
11	differing	differ	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
12	weights	weight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	dishonest	dishonest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	scales	scale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
17	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	please	please	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_
22	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	23	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct
23	Proverbs	proverb	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	dep	_	_
24	20:23	20:23	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	nmod	_	_
25	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	23	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=evaluate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swap** | gerund |  | price stickers |  |  |  |  | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sticker=Theme |
| 2 | **steal** | present · progressive | Swapping |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **detest** *in a quote* | present | the Lord | differing weights |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer weight=Stimulus |
| 4 | **differ** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **not** **please** *in a quote* | present · do-support | dishonest scales | Lord |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=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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**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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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