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title: There is often a way to be both honest and kind, for example thankin… — Virtues: honesty, fairness and kindness · tree and pragmatics
description: There is often a way to be both honest and kind, for example thanking someone for their thought. Who acts: way, example, people. A sentence of the lesson «Virtues: honesty, fairness and kindness» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Virtues: honesty, fairness and kindness, sentence 9

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There is often a way to be both honest and kind, for example thanking someone for their thought.

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**Who acts:** way, example, people · **What happens:** be, thank, think · **To what, where:** someone

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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 (way, example, people), 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:9
# text = There is often a way to be both honest and kind, for example thanking someone for their thought.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	often	often	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
8	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc:preconj	_	_
9	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	acl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	thanking	thank	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
16	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	15	obj	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **be** | present | a way |  |  | there |  | often *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive | a way *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for example; honest *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | a way *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **thank** *speech: thank* | gerund | example *not said here* | someone |  |  |  | for people's thought | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent someone=Theme for thought=Attribute |
| 5 | **think** |  | people |  |  |  |  |  | nom thought «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): 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.

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