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title: Kindness is choosing to help, include and care, and it grows from em… — Virtues: honesty, fairness and kindness · tree and pragmatics
description: Kindness is choosing to help, include and care, and it grows from empathy, imagining how another person feels, "walking in their shoes"; Christians remember Jesus' Golden Rule: do to others what you would want them to do to you. Who acts: Kindness, person, Christians, Golden Rule. A sentence of the 
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# Virtues: honesty, fairness and kindness, sentence 3

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Kindness is choosing to help, include and care, and it grows from empathy, imagining how another person feels, "walking in their shoes"; Christians remember Jesus' Golden Rule: do to others what you would want them to do to you.

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**Who acts:** Kindness, person, Christians, Golden Rule, you · **What happens:** choose, help, include, care, grow, imagine · **To what, where:** shoes, Golden Rule, you

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Virtues: honesty, fairness and kindness» 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 (Kindness, person, Christians, Golden Rule), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:034-honesty-fairness-and-kindness.lesson:3
# text = Kindness is choosing to help, include and care, and it grows from empathy, imagining how another person feels, "walking in their shoes"; Christians remember Jesus' Golden Rule: do to others what you would want them to do to you.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 034-honesty-fairness-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): R1-cc-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Kindness	kindness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	choosing	choose	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	include	include	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=7:cc
9	care	care	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=7:conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:parataxis
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	empathy	empathy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	imagining	imagine	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	conj	_	_
18	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
19	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	det	_	_
20	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	feels	feel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	ccomp	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
23	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
24	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct
29	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	Christians	Christian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
31	remember	remember	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
32	Jesus	Jesus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod:poss	_	_
33	'	's	PART	POS	_	32	case	_	_
34	Golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	Rule	rule	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=31:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
36	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
37	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	acl	_	_
38	to	to	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obl	_	_
40	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	46	obj	_	_
41	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
42	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
43	want	want	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=37:advcl
44	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
45	to	to	PART	TO	_	46	mark	_	_
46	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	xcomp	_	_
47	to	to	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	46	obl	_	_
49	.	.	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 | **choose** | present · progressive | Kindness |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **help** | to-infinitive | Kindness *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **include** | infinitive | Kindness *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **care** | infinitive | Kindness *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **grow** | present | Kindness |  |  |  |  | from empathy | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from empathy=Patient |
| 6 | **imagine** | gerund | Kindness *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 7 | **feel** | present | another person |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 8 | **walk** *in a quote* | gerund | Kindness *not said here* |  |  | favourites's shoes |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in shoe=Trajectory |
| 9 | **remember** | present | Christians | Jesus's Golden Rule |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent rule=Theme |
| 10 | **do** | infinitive | Jesus's Golden Rule *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to others | tree rules |
| 11 | **want** | would | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 12 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Christians *= christian* |  | you |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

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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): R1-cc-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×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.

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