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title: "Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves" (Proverbs 31:8)… — Olympiad dilemmas: friends, truth and telling · tree and pragmatics
description: "Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves" (Proverbs 31:8); if a grown-up cheats, tell your parents so they can raise it. Who acts: parents, grown, you. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad dilemmas: friends, truth and telling» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its 
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# Olympiad dilemmas: friends, truth and telling, sentence 10

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"Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves" (Proverbs 31:8); if a grown-up cheats, tell your parents so they can raise it.

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**Who acts:** parents, grown, you · **What happens:** speak up, not speak, cheat, tell, raise · **To what, where:** parents, adult · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad dilemmas: friends, truth and telling» 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 (parents, grown, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:099-olympiad-dilemmas-friends-truth-and-telling.lesson:10
# text = "Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves" (Proverbs 31:8); if a grown-up cheats, tell your parents so they can raise it.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 099-olympiad-dilemmas-friends-truth-and-telling.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, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Speak	speak	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	obl	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
7	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	9	obl	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
13	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
14	Proverbs	Proverbs	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
15	31:8	31:8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nmod	_	_
16	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
18	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	grown	grow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	nsubj	_	_
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	_
22	up	up	ADP	RP	_	20	compound	_	_
23	cheats	cheat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
26	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	iobj	_	_
28	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
29	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	raise	raise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- 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 | **speak up** *speech: other* *in a quote* | imperative | your parents *= parent* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for those | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **speak** *speech: other* *in a quote* | can |  |  |  |  |  | for Ephesians | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **cheat** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a grown |  |  |  |  |  | vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  | your parents |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient |
| 5 | **raise** | can | parents *= parent* | adult |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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**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, R6-punct-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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