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title: "Acquitting the guilty and condemning the innocent: the Lord detests… — Olympiad dilemmas: friends, truth and telling · tree and pragmatics
description: "Acquitting the guilty and condemning the innocent: the Lord detests them both" (Proverbs 17:15). Who acts: Lord. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad dilemmas: friends, truth and telling» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Olympiad dilemmas: friends, truth and telling, sentence 15

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"Acquitting the guilty and condemning the innocent: the Lord detests them both" (Proverbs 17:15).

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**Who acts:** Lord · **What happens:** acquit, condemn, detest · **To what, where:** guilty, innocent, people

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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 (Lord), 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:15
# text = "Acquitting the guilty and condemning the innocent: the Lord detests them both" (Proverbs 17:15).
# 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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Acquitting	acquit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	guilty	guilty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	condemning	condemn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	innocent	innocent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obj	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	detests	detest	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	dep	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_
16	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	17	punct	_	_
17	Proverbs	proverb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:obj
18	17:15	17:15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	flat	_	_
19	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct
20	.	.	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 | **acquit** *in a quote* | gerund |  | the guilty |  |  |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer guilty=Source |
| 2 | **condemn** *in a quote* | gerund |  | the innocent |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent innocent=Theme |
| 3 | **detest** *in a quote* | present | the Lord | people |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 ×3, 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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