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title: Respectful language means using the names people use for themselves… — Buddhism, humanism and respect for every belief · tree and pragmatics
description: Respectful language means using the names people use for themselves and their faiths and not mocking holy things. Who acts: Respectful language, people. A sentence of the lesson «Buddhism, humanism and respect for every belief» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependen
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# Buddhism, humanism and respect for every belief, sentence 13

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Respectful language means using the names people use for themselves and their faiths and not mocking holy things.

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**Who acts:** Respectful language, people · **What happens:** mean, use, not mock · **To what, where:** names, holy things · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Buddhism, humanism and respect for every belief» of the religion ethics 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 (Respectful language, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:033-buddhism-humanism-and-respect.lesson:13
# text = Respectful language means using the names people use for themselves and their faiths and not mocking holy things.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 033-buddhism-humanism-and-respect.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	Respectful	respectful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	using	use	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	ccomp	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	8	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	faiths	faith	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	mocking	mock	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	conj	_	_
17	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | Respectful language |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **use** | gerund |  | the names |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient |
| 3 | **use** | present | people | the names *not said here* |  |  |  | for people | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent name=Theme for themselves=Eventuality |
| 4 | **not** **mock** | gerund |  | holy things |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme |

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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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**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.

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