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title: Respect means people value and trust you; fear means people avoid yo… — Respect: how it is earned · tree and pragmatics
description: Respect means people value and trust you; fear means people avoid you or obey you only while you are there. Who acts: Respect, people, fear, you. 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 
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# Respect: how it is earned, sentence 20

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Respect means people value and trust you; fear means people avoid you or obey you only while you are there.

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**Who acts:** Respect, people, fear, you · **What happens:** mean, value, trust, avoid, obey, be · **To what, where:** you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Respect, people, fear, you), 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:20
# text = Respect means people value and trust you; fear means people avoid you or obey you only while you are there.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
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	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	value	value	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	trust	trust	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
11	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	avoid	avoid	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	obey	obey	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	only	only	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
18	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advcl	_	_
22	.	.	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 | **value** | present | people |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **trust** | present | people *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 4 | **mean** | present | fear |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **avoid** | present | people | you |  |  |  |  | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent you=Location |
| 6 | **obey** | present | people *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 7 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | there *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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**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:20`.

**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): R8-pos-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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