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title: Rahab hid the spies and misled the king's men (Joshua 2:4-6), and He… — Olympiad dilemmas: friends, truth and telling · tree and pragmatics
description: Rahab hid the spies and misled the king's men (Joshua 2:4-6), and Hebrews 11:31 praises her faith; the midwives misled Pharaoh, and God was kind to them (Exodus 1:15-21). Who acts: Rahab, Hebrews, midwives, God. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad dilemmas: friends, truth and telling» of the religion
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# Olympiad dilemmas: friends, truth and telling, sentence 5

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Rahab hid the spies and misled the king's men (Joshua 2:4-6), and Hebrews 11:31 praises her faith; the midwives misled Pharaoh, and God was kind to them (Exodus 1:15-21).

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**Who acts:** Rahab, Hebrews, midwives, God · **What happens:** hide, mislead, praise, be · **To what, where:** spies, men, faith, Pharaoh, midwives

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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 (Rahab, Hebrews, midwives, God), 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:5
# text = Rahab hid the spies and misled the king's men (Joshua 2:4-6), and Hebrews 11:31 praises her faith; the midwives misled Pharaoh, and God was kind to them (Exodus 1:15-21).
# 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Rahab	Rahab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hid	hide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	spies	spy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	misled	mislead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
11	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Joshua	Joshua	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	2:4-6	2:4-6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	flat	_	_
14	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	12	punct	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	Hebrews	hebrew	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
18	11:31	11:31	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	praises	praise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	faith	faith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	midwives	midwife	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
25	misled	mislead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl	_	_
26	Pharaoh	Pharaoh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
31	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:nmod
34	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	35	punct	_	_
35	Exodus	exodus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	appos	_	_
36	1:15-21	1:15-21	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	35	flat	_	_
37	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	35	punct	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | past | Rahab | the spies |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spy=Patient |
| 2 | **mislead** | past | Rahab *not said here* | the king's men |  |  |  | Joshua *obl* | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient |
| 3 | **praise** | present | Hebrews | Rahab's faith |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent faith=Theme |
| 4 | **mislead** | participle | the midwives *not said here* | Pharaoh |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pharaoh=Patient |
| 5 | **is** | past | God |  | midwives *= midwife* |  |  | kind *property* | 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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**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:5`.

**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 ×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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