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title: Strength you control earns respect. — Respect: how it is earned · tree and pragmatics
description: Strength you control earns respect. Who acts: you, Strength. A sentence of the lesson «Respect: how it is earned» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Respect: how it is earned, sentence 18

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Strength you control earns respect.

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**Who acts:** you, Strength · **What happens:** control, earn · **To what, where:** Strength, respect

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Respect: how it is earned» 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 (you, Strength), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:385-respect-how-it-is-earned.lesson:18
# text = Strength you control earns respect.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 385-respect-how-it-is-earned.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	Strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	control	control	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
4	earns	earn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	respect	respect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **control** | present | you | Strength *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Theme |
| 2 | **earn** | present | Strength | respect |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent respect=Theme |

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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:385-respect-how-it-is-earned.lesson:18`.

**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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