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title: Kindness often spreads, because people who are treated kindly are mo… — Manners and kindness · tree and pragmatics
description: Kindness often spreads, because people who are treated kindly are more likely to be kind to others. Who acts: Kindness, people. A sentence of the lesson «Manners and kindness» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Manners and kindness, sentence 16

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Kindness often spreads, because people who are treated kindly are more likely to be kind to others.

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**Who acts:** Kindness, people · **What happens:** spread, treat, be · **To what, where:** people

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Manners and kindness» 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 (Kindness, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:051-manners-and-kindness.lesson:16
# text = Kindness often spreads, because people who are treated kindly are more likely to be kind to others.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 051-manners-and-kindness.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	Kindness	kindness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	often	often	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	spreads	spread	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
5	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
6	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	treated	treat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	kindly	kindly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	13	advmod	_	_
13	likely	likely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advcl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	cop	_	_
16	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spread** | present | Kindness |  |  |  |  | often *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **treat** | present · passive |  | people |  |  |  | kindly *property* | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 3 | **is** | present | people |  |  |  |  | likely *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | to-infinitive | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to others; kind *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:051-manners-and-kindness.lesson:16`.

**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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