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title: "You shall not steal" and "You shall not bear false witness" (Exodus… — Honest money: earning, raising and paying fairly · tree and pragmatics
description: "You shall not steal" and "You shall not bear false witness" (Exodus 20:15-16): pretending you didn't know you spent real money breaks both; telling the truth lets a parent ask the shop for a refund and keeps their trust. Who acts: You, pretending, truth, telling. A sentence of the lesson «Honest mo
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# Honest money: earning, raising and paying fairly, sentence 8

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"You shall not steal" and "You shall not bear false witness" (Exodus 20:15-16): pretending you didn't know you spent real money breaks both; telling the truth lets a parent ask the shop for a refund and keeps their trust.

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**Who acts:** You, pretending, truth, telling, shop, customers · **What happens:** not steal, not bear, pretend, not know, spend, break · **To what, where:** false witness, real money, both, parent, trust · **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 (You, pretending, truth, telling), 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:8
# text = "You shall not steal" and "You shall not bear false witness" (Exodus 20:15-16): pretending you didn't know you spent real money breaks both; telling the truth lets a parent ask the shop for a refund and keeps their trust.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	steal	steal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=5:cc
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
9	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
13	false	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	witness	witness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
16	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	17	punct	_	_
17	Exodus	exodus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
18	20:15-16	20:15-16	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	flat	_	_
19	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	17	punct	_	_
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
21	pretending	pretend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	csubj	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	ccomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	spent	spend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	ccomp	_	_
28	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:amod
29	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	breaks	break	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
31	both	both	PRON	DT	_	30	obj	_	_
32	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
33	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	36	csubj	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	lets	let	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
39	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	xcomp	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
42	for	for	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	refund	refund	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=36:cc
46	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	conj	_	_
47	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
48	trust	trust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obj	_	_
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **steal** *in a quote* | shall | You |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **bear** *in a quote* | shall | You | false witness |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witness=Patient |
| 3 | **pretend** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **know** | past · do-support | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **spend** | past | you | real money |  |  |  |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Asset |
| 6 | **break** | present | pretending | both |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer both=Patient |
| 7 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | the truth |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **let** | present | telling | a parent |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | the shop |  |  |  |  | for a refund | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 10 | **keep** | present | telling *not said here* | customers's trust |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trust=Theme |
| 11 | **trust** |  | customers *= customer* |  |  |  |  |  | nom trust «possession intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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:096-honest-money-earning-raising-and-paying-fairly.lesson:8`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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/).

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