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title: Christians practise looking back over the day: give thanks and notic… — Honest with yourself: excuses, pride and the tru… · tree and pragmatics
description: Christians practise looking back over the day: give thanks and notice where you went wrong; Ignatius of Loyola taught this prayer, the Examen, in the 1500s. Who acts: Christians, you, Ignatius. A sentence of the lesson «Honest with yourself: excuses, pride and the truth inside» of the religion ethic
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# Honest with yourself: excuses, pride and the truth inside, sentence 2

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Christians practise looking back over the day: give thanks and notice where you went wrong; Ignatius of Loyola taught this prayer, the Examen, in the 1500s.

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**Who acts:** Christians, you, Ignatius · **What happens:** practise, look back, give, notice, go, teach · **To what, where:** thanks, prayer, 1500s

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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 (Christians, you, Ignatius), 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:2
# text = Christians practise looking back over the day: give thanks and notice where you went wrong; Ignatius of Loyola taught this prayer, the Examen, in the 1500s.
# 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	Christians	Christian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:compound
2	practise	practise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	xcomp	_	_
4	back	back	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	over	over	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
9	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
10	thanks	thanks	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	9	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	notice	notice	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
13	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	15	advmod	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl	_	_
16	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	Ignatius	Ignatius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Loyola	Loyola	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	taught	teach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
22	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
23	prayer	prayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	Examen	Examen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	1500s	1500	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	21	obl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **practise** | present | Christians |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **look back** | gerund | Christians *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **give** | infinitive |  | thanks |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thanks=Theme |
| 4 | **notice** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **go** | past | you |  |  |  |  | wrong *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **teach** *speech: other* | past | Ignatius of Loyola | this prayer |  | the 1500s |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent prayer=Recipient |

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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:2`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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