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title: Respecting someone's belief does not mean you have to agree with it. — Buddhism, humanism and respect for every belief · tree and pragmatics
description: Respecting someone's belief does not mean you have to agree with it. Who acts: Respecting, you, someone. A sentence of the lesson «Buddhism, humanism and respect for every belief» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Buddhism, humanism and respect for every belief, sentence 14

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Respecting someone's belief does not mean you have to agree with it.

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**Who acts:** Respecting, you, someone · **What happens:** respect, not mean, have, agree, believe · **To what, where:** belief · **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 (Respecting, you, someone), 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:14
# text = Respecting someone's belief does not mean you have to agree with it.
# 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	Respecting	respect	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	csubj	_	_
2	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	belief	belief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	agree	agree	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **respect** | gerund |  | someone's belief |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer belief=Stimulus |
| 2 | **not** **mean** | present · do-support | Respecting |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **have** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **agree** *speech: agree* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with language | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent how S»: agent=Agent with it=Co-Agent |
| 5 | **believe** |  | someone |  |  |  |  |  | nom belief «cognition transitive»: 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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**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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