--- title: The Bible has hard cases too: Rahab hid the Israelite spies and misl… — Olympiad dilemmas: friends, truth and telling · tree and pragmatics description: The Bible has hard cases too: Rahab hid the Israelite spies and misled the king's men (Joshua 2:4-6), and the Hebrew midwives misled Pharaoh to save baby boys (Exodus 1:15-21); Christians still disagree whether the lies themselves were right. Who acts: Bible, Rahab, Hebrew midwives, Christians. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bible, Rahab, Hebrew midwives, Christians), 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:2 # text = The Bible has hard cases too: Rahab hid the Israelite spies and misled the king's men (Joshua 2:4-6), and the Hebrew midwives misled Pharaoh to save baby boys (Exodus 1:15-21); Christians still disagree whether the lies themselves were right. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Bible Bible PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 cases case NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 too too ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 8 Rahab Rahab PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 hid hide VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 Israelite israelite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 12 spies spy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 misled mislead VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod:poss _ _ 17 's 's PART POS _ 16 case _ _ 18 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 19 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 20 punct _ _ 20 Joshua Joshua PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 21 2:4-6 2:4-6 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 20 flat _ _ 22 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 20 punct _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 Hebrew hebrew ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 midwives midwife NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 28 misled mislead VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 29 Pharaoh Pharaoh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=28:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 save save VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:acl 32 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 boys boy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obj _ _ 34 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 35 punct _ _ 35 Exodus exodus NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 appos _ _ 36 1:15-21 1:15-21 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 35 flat _ _ 37 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 35 punct _ _ 38 ; ; PUNCT : _ 41 punct _ _ 39 Christians Christian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 41 nsubj _ _ 40 still still ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 41 disagree disagree VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 42 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 47 mark _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 lies lie NOUN NNS Number=Plur 47 nsubj _ _ 45 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes 44 nmod:unmarked _ _ 46 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 47 cop _ _ 47 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 ccomp _ _ 48 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | the Bible | hard cases | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent case=Patient | | 2 | **hide** | past | Rahab | the Israelite spies | | | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spy=Patient | | 3 | **mislead** | past | Rahab *not said here* | the king's men | | | | Joshua *obl* | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient | | 4 | **mislead** | past | the Hebrew midwives | Pharaoh | | | | | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pharaoh=Patient | | 5 | **save** | to-infinitive | the Hebrew midwives *not said here* | baby boys | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Theme | | 6 | **disagree** | present | Christians | | | | still | | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **is** | past | the lies Christians | | | | | right *property* | tree rules | 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. **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:099-olympiad-dilemmas-friends-truth-and-telling.lesson:2`. **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 ×3, 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. 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