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title: Respect means treating people as they would want to be treated: with… — Respect for first peoples, older people and peop… · tree and pragmatics
description: Respect means treating people as they would want to be treated: with patience, kindness and without staring, teasing or taking over. Who acts: Respect, people. A sentence of the lesson «Respect for first peoples, older people and people with disabilities» of the everyday course of Mova's primary sch
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# Respect for first peoples, older people and people with disabilities, sentence 0

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Respect means treating people as they would want to be treated: with patience, kindness and without staring, teasing or taking over.

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**Who acts:** Respect, people · **What happens:** mean, treat, want, stare, tease, take over · **To what, where:** people

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Respect for first peoples, older people and people with disabilities» of the everyday 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 (Respect, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:227-older-people-and-disabilities.lesson:0
# text = Respect means treating people as they would want to be treated: with patience, kindness and without staring, teasing or taking over.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 227-older-people-and-disabilities.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Respect	respect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	treating	treat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:ccomp
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	want	want	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	treated	treat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	xcomp	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	patience	patience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct
16	kindness	kindness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	staring	stare	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	teasing	tease	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	conj	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=21:conj
24	over	over	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
25	.	.	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 | **mean** | present | Respect |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **treat** *not said to happen* | gerund | Respect *not said here* |  | people |  |  | kindness *obl* | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent people=Recipient |
| 3 | **want** | would | people |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **treat** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive · passive | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient» |
| 5 | **stare** | gerund | Respect *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **tease** | gerund | Respect *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn ferret-35.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **take over** | gerund | Respect *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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:everyday:227-older-people-and-disabilities.lesson:0`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-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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