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title: "Do not pervert justice or show partiality" (Deuteronomy 16:19); jud… — Olympiad dilemmas: friends, truth and telling · tree and pragmatics
description: "Do not pervert justice or show partiality" (Deuteronomy 16:19); judges should step back when a friend takes part, which is called a conflict of interest. Who acts: you, judges, friend, interest. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad dilemmas: friends, truth and telling» of the religion ethics course o
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# Olympiad dilemmas: friends, truth and telling, sentence 13

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"Do not pervert justice or show partiality" (Deuteronomy 16:19); judges should step back when a friend takes part, which is called a conflict of interest.

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**Who acts:** you, judges, friend, interest · **What happens:** not pervert, show, step back, take, call, conflict · **To what, where:** justice, partiality, part · **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 (you, judges, friend, interest), 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:13
# text = "Do not pervert justice or show partiality" (Deuteronomy 16:19); judges should step back when a friend takes part, which is called a conflict of interest.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3
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	pervert	pervert	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	justice	justice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
8	partiality	partiality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct
10	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
11	Deuteronomy	Deuteronomy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
12	16:19	16:19	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	flat	_	_
13	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
15	judges	judge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
16	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	step	step	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
18	back	back	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
23	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl:relcl	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	conflict	conflict	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:obj
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	interest	interest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **not** **pervert** *in a quote* | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* | justice |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **show** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | partiality |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent partiality=Recipient |
| 3 | **step back** | should | judges |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **take** | present | a friend | part |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme |
| 5 | **call** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | part |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 6 | **conflict** |  | interest |  |  |  |  |  | nom conflict «act intransitive»: of=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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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.

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