--- title: "Defend the weak and the fatherless; uphold the cause of the poor an… — Olympiad dilemmas: friends, truth and telling · tree and pragmatics description: "Defend the weak and the fatherless; uphold the cause of the poor and the oppressed" (Psalm 82:3); if a child is frightened of being hurt at home, a trusted adult needs to know. Who acts: you, trusted adult. 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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 (you, trusted adult), 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:9 # text = "Defend the weak and the fatherless; uphold the cause of the poor and the oppressed" (Psalm 82:3); if a child is frightened of being hurt at home, a trusted adult needs to know. # 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 ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Defend defend VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 weak weak ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 obj _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 fatherless fatherless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 9 uphold uphold VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 cause cause NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 nmod _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 oppressed oppress VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj 18 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct 19 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 20 punct _ _ 20 Psalm Psalm PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ _ 21 82:3 82:3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 20 flat _ _ 22 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 20 punct _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 24 if if SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj:pass _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux:pass _ _ 28 frightened frighten VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 38 advcl _ _ 29 of of SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 30 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 31 aux:pass _ _ 31 hurt hurt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 advcl _ _ 32 at at ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 trusted trusted ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 38 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 39 to to PART TO _ 40 mark _ _ 40 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 xcomp _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **defend** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | the weak | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **uphold** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | the cause of the poor | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **oppress** *in a quote* | participle | you *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **frighten** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · passive | | a child | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | | 5 | **hurt** | gerund · passive | | | | home | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | | 6 | **need** | present | a trusted adult | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 7 | **know** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a trusted adult *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | 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:9`. **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 ×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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