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title: "Let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to the Lor… — Honest with yourself: excuses, pride and the tru… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to the Lord" (Lamentations 3:40); Ignatius of Loyola, in the 1500s, taught the daily prayer called the Examen. Who acts: you, us, Ignatius. A sentence of the lesson «Honest with yourself: excuses, pride and the truth inside» of the religion e
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# Honest with yourself: excuses, pride and the truth inside, sentence 8

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"Let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to the Lord" (Lamentations 3:40); Ignatius of Loyola, in the 1500s, taught the daily prayer called the Examen.

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**Who acts:** you, us, Ignatius · **What happens:** let, examine, test, return, teach, call · **To what, where:** us, ways, daily prayer, 1500s · **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, us, 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:8
# text = "Let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to the Lord" (Lamentations 3:40); Ignatius of Loyola, in the 1500s, taught the daily prayer called the Examen.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	examine	examine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	test	test	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis
13	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
19	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	20	punct	_	_
20	Lamentations	lamentation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	parataxis	_	_
21	3:40	3:40	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	flat	_	_
22	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	20	punct	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
24	Ignatius	Ignatius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Loyola	Loyola	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
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	32	obl	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	taught	teach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	daily	daily	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	prayer	prayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
36	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	acl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=35:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	Examen	Examen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	xcomp	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **let** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **examine** *in a quote* | infinitive | us *not said here* | our ways |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme |
| 3 | **test** *in a quote* | infinitive | us *not said here* | ways *= way* |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 4 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **return** *in a quote* | infinitive | us *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the Lord *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to lord=Result |
| 6 | **teach** *speech: other* | past | Ignatius of Loyola | the daily prayer |  | the 1500s |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent prayer=Recipient |
| 7 | **call** | participle |  | the daily prayer *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: 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:8`.

**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, 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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