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title: Speaking up for what is true or fair is a kind of courage, just like… — Speaking up is bravery too · tree and pragmatics
description: Speaking up for what is true or fair is a kind of courage, just like standing up to danger. Who acts: Speaking, kind. A sentence of the lesson «Speaking up is bravery too» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Speaking up is bravery too, sentence 19

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Speaking up for what is true or fair is a kind of courage, just like standing up to danger.

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**Who acts:** Speaking, kind · **What happens:** speak up, be, stand up · **To what, where:** kind

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Speaking up is bravery too» 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 (Speaking, kind), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:368-speaking-up-is-bravery-too.lesson:19
# text = Speaking up for what is true or fair is a kind of courage, just like standing up to danger.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 368-speaking-up-is-bravery-too.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): no change
1	Speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	csubj	_	_
2	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	1	obl	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	courage	courage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	just	just	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
18	up	up	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed polarity=pos

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak up** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | for a kind | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | present | Speaking | a kind |  |  |  | of courage | tree rules |
| 5 | **stand up** | gerund | a kind *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to danger | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: 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:368-speaking-up-is-bravery-too.lesson:19`.

**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): no change. **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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