--- title: Speaking up for something good when you are nervous is a kind of cou… — Respect: how it is earned · tree and pragmatics description: Speaking up for something good when you are nervous is a kind of courage. Who acts: you, Speaking. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/385-respect-how-it-is-earned/23/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Respect: how it is earned](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/385-respect-how-it-is-earned/) / 23 # Respect: how it is earned, sentence 23 Speaking up for something good when you are nervous is a kind of courage. **Who acts:** you, Speaking · **What happens:** speak up, be · **To what, where:** kind 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, Speaking), 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:23 # text = Speaking up for something good when you are nervous is a kind of courage. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Speaking speak VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:nsubj 2 up up ADP RP _ 1 compound:prt _ _ 3 for for ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 1 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:obj 5 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 6 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 9 advmod _ _ 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 8 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 9 nervous nervous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 advcl _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 courage courage NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 15 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **speak up** *speech: other* | gerund | | | | | | for something | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | present | you | | | | | nervous *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | present | Speaking | a kind | | | | of courage | tree rules | 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:everyday:385-respect-how-it-is-earned.lesson:23`. **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): 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/). - ← previous: [Respect: how it is earned, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/385-respect-how-it-is-earned/22/) - next →: [Respect: how it is earned, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/385-respect-how-it-is-earned/24/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/385-respect-how-it-is-earned/)