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title: "Be very careful, then, how you live... making the most of every opp… — Honest with yourself: excuses, pride and the tru… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Be very careful, then, how you live... making the most of every opportunity" (Ephesians 5:15-16); people often misjudge their own screen time, so check the real number. Who acts: you, people. A sentence of the lesson «Honest with yourself: excuses, pride and the truth inside» of the religion ethics
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# Honest with yourself: excuses, pride and the truth inside, sentence 15

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"Be very careful, then, how you live... making the most of every opportunity" (Ephesians 5:15-16); people often misjudge their own screen time, so check the real number.

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**Who acts:** you, people · **What happens:** be, live, make, misjudge, check · **To what, where:** opportunity, real number · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Honest with yourself: excuses, pride and the truth inside» 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, people), 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:15
# text = "Be very careful, then, how you live... making the most of every opportunity" (Ephesians 5:15-16); people often misjudge their own screen time, so check the real number.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
2	Be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
11	...	...	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:::_
12	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:det
14	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	17	advmod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
19	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	20	punct	_	_
20	Ephesians	Ephesians	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	17	appos	_	_
21	5:15-16	5:15-16	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	flat	_	_
22	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	20	punct	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
24	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
25	often	often	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	misjudge	misjudge	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
27	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
28	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
29	screen	screen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	so	so	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	check	check	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | 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 | **live** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  | then |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **make** *in a quote* | gerund | you *not said here* | every opportunity |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset opportunity=Product |
| 4 | **misjudge** | present | people |  |  |  | time | often *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **check** | infinitive | people *not said here* | the real number |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=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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**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:15`.

**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 ×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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