--- title: "Be careful not to practise your righteousness in front of others to… — Honest with yourself: excuses, pride and the tru… · tree and pragmatics description: "Be careful not to practise your righteousness in front of others to be seen by them" (Matthew 6:1-4); being honest about your reasons helps you do good for good reasons. Who acts: you, others, honest. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, others, honest), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:098-honest-with-yourself-excuses-pride-and-the-truth-inside.lesson:13 # text = "Be careful not to practise your righteousness in front of others to be seen by them" (Matthew 6:1-4); being honest about your reasons helps you do good for good reasons. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 098-honest-with-yourself-excuses-pride-and-the-truth-inside.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 2 Be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 3 cop _ _ 3 careful careful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 practise practise VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 3 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:parataxis 7 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 righteousness righteousness NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 front front NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nmod _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 14 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 15 aux:pass _ _ 15 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 advcl _ _ 16 by by ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obl:agent _ _ 18 " " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 19 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 20 punct _ _ 20 Matthew Matthew PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 parataxis _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:parataxis|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 21 6:1-4 6:1-4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 20 flat _ _ 22 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 20 punct _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 24 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 25 cop _ _ 25 honest honest ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 nsubj _ _ 26 about about ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 reasons reason NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 29 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 30 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 xcomp _ _ 32 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 obj _ _ 33 for for ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 reasons reason NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: suggest - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=suggest | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | careful *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **practise** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | your righteousness | | front of others | | | tree rules | | 3 | **see** *in a quote* | to-infinitive · passive | others *= other* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 4 | **is** | gerund | | | | | | about your reasons; honest *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **help** | present | honest | you | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 6 | **do** | infinitive | you *not said here* | good | | | | for good reasons | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality | 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. **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:098-honest-with-yourself-excuses-pride-and-the-truth-inside.lesson:13`. **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): 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. 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