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title: "Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thou… — Honest with yourself: excuses, pride and the tru… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts" (Psalm 139:23). Who acts: you, my. 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 dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Honest with yourself: excuses, pride and the truth inside, sentence 6

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"Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts" (Psalm 139:23).

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**Who acts:** you, my · **What happens:** search, know, test, think · **To what, where:** bravest honesty, heart, anxious thoughts

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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, my), 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:6
# text = "Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts" (Psalm 139:23).
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Search	search	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	vocative	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=2:cc
8	know	know	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	test	test	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
15	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin
16	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	anxious	anxious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	thoughts	thought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
20	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	21	punct	_	_
21	Psalm	Psalm	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:obj
22	139:23	139:23	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	flat	_	_
23	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	21	punct	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **search** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | the bravest honesty *= honesty* |  |  |  | God *vocative* | tree rules |
| 2 | **know** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | my heart |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer heart=Stimulus |
| 3 | **test** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | the bravest honesty *= honesty* |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 4 | **know** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | my anxious thoughts |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer thought=Stimulus |
| 5 | **think** *in a quote* |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom thought «cognition transitive»: 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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**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 ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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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