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title: "Do not spread false reports" (Exodus 23:1); honesty includes not cl… — Honest with yourself: excuses, pride and the tru… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Do not spread false reports" (Exodus 23:1); honesty includes not claiming more certainty than you have. Who acts: you, honesty, more certainty. A sentence of the lesson «Honest with yourself: excuses, pride and the truth inside» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its depend
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# Honest with yourself: excuses, pride and the truth inside, sentence 17

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"Do not spread false reports" (Exodus 23:1); honesty includes not claiming more certainty than you have.

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**Who acts:** you, honesty, more certainty · **What happens:** not spread, include, not claim, have · **To what, where:** false reports · **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, honesty, more certainty), 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:17
# text = "Do not spread false reports" (Exodus 23:1); honesty includes not claiming more certainty than you have.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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	spread	spread	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	false	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	reports	report	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct
8	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Exodus	Exodus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
10	23:1	23:1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	flat	_	_
11	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	9	punct	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	honesty	honesty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	includes	include	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	claiming	claim	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	xcomp	_	_
17	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	18	amod	_	_
18	certainty	certainty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
22	.	.	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 | **not** **spread** *in a quote* | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* | false reports |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **include** | present | honesty |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **claim** *speech: other* | gerund | more certainty |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **have** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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:098-honest-with-yourself-excuses-pride-and-the-truth-inside.lesson:17`.

**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 ×1, 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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