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title: Jesus said to speak to the person privately first, then bring others… — Olympiad dilemmas: friends, truth and telling · tree and pragmatics
description: Jesus said to speak to the person privately first, then bring others (Matthew 18:15-16); "Anyone who has been stealing must steal no longer" (Ephesians 4:28). Who acts: Jesus, Anyone. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad dilemmas: friends, truth and telling» of the religion ethics course of Mova's pri
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# Olympiad dilemmas: friends, truth and telling, sentence 7

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Jesus said to speak to the person privately first, then bring others (Matthew 18:15-16); "Anyone who has been stealing must steal no longer" (Ephesians 4:28).

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**Who acts:** Jesus, Anyone · **What happens:** say, speak, bring, steal · **To what, where:** others · **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 (Jesus, Anyone), 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:7
# text = Jesus said to speak to the person privately first, then bring others (Matthew 18:15-16); "Anyone who has been stealing must steal no longer" (Ephesians 4:28).
# 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 ×2
1	Jesus	Jesus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	privately	privately	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
9	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	advmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
12	bring	bring	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	15	punct	_	_
15	Matthew	Matthew	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
16	18:15-16	18:15-16	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	flat	_	_
17	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	15	punct	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct
20	Anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	26	nsubj	_	_
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
22	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	aux	_	_
24	stealing	steal	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	acl:relcl	_	_
25	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	steal	steal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	parataxis	_	_
27	no	no	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	26	advmod	_	_
29	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	_
30	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	31	punct	_	_
31	Ephesians	Ephesians	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	26	parataxis	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:obl
32	4:28	4:28	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	31	flat	_	_
33	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	31	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Jesus |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | Jesus *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the person; first, privately *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to person=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **bring** | infinitive | Jesus *not said here* | others |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **steal** *in a quote* | present · perfect · progressive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **steal** *in a quote* | must | Anyone |  |  |  |  | long *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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**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 ×2. **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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