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title: Confucius' golden rule says: what you do not want for yourself, do n… — China: five thousand years and the oldest dynast… · tree and pragmatics
description: Confucius' golden rule says: what you do not want for yourself, do not do to others. Who acts: golden rule, you, Confucius. A sentence of the lesson «China: five thousand years and the oldest dynasties» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# China: five thousand years and the oldest dynasties, sentence 16

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Confucius' golden rule says: what you do not want for yourself, do not do to others.

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**Who acts:** golden rule, you, Confucius · **What happens:** say, not want, not do, rule · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «China: five thousand years and the oldest dynasties» of the history 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 (golden rule, you, Confucius), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:051-china-five-thousand-years-the-oldest-dynasties.lesson:16
# text = Confucius' golden rule says: what you do not want for yourself, do not do to others.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 051-china-five-thousand-years-the-oldest-dynasties.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): R5-strong ×1
1	Confucius	Confucius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
2	'	'	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
7	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	11	obj	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	want	want	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	11	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	do	do	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:conj
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Confucius's golden rule |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **want** | present · do-support | you |  |  |  |  | for yourself | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **do** | infinitive · do-support |  |  |  |  |  | to others | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **rule** |  | Confucius |  |  |  |  |  | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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:history:051-china-five-thousand-years-the-oldest-dynasties.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): R5-strong ×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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