--- title: It is fairer to judge a person by what they do, not by their family. — Feuds between families · tree and pragmatics description: It is fairer to judge a person by what they do, not by their family. Who acts: ups. A sentence of the lesson «Feuds between families» 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/474-feuds-between-families/30/) [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/) / [Feuds between families](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/474-feuds-between-families/) / 30 # Feuds between families, sentence 30 It is fairer to judge a person by what they do, not by their family. **Who acts:** ups · **What happens:** be, judge, do · **To what, where:** person This is a sentence of the lesson «Feuds between families» 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 (ups), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:474-feuds-between-families.lesson:30 # text = It is fairer to judge a person by what they do, not by their family. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 474-feuds-between-families.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 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 expl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 fairer fair ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 judge judge VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:advcl 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 by by ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 3 obl _ _ 10 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 14 by by ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 17 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | | | | | | fair *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **judge** | to-infinitive | | a person | | | | | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent person=Value | | 3 | **do** | present | ups *= up* | | | | | by ups's family | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:474-feuds-between-families.lesson:30`. **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: [Feuds between families, 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/474-feuds-between-families/29/) - next →: [Feuds between families, 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/474-feuds-between-families/31/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/474-feuds-between-families/)