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title: Courage is not having no fear; it is doing what is right even when y… — Virtues: courage, responsibility, rights and dut… · tree and pragmatics
description: Courage is not having no fear; it is doing what is right even when you are afraid or it is unpopular, like David facing Goliath, or a child who speaks up when everyone else laughs at someone. Who acts: Courage, you, David, child. A sentence of the lesson «Virtues: courage, responsibility, rights and
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# Virtues: courage, responsibility, rights and duties, sentence 0

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Courage is not having no fear; it is doing what is right even when you are afraid or it is unpopular, like David facing Goliath, or a child who speaks up when everyone else laughs at someone.

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**Who acts:** Courage, you, David, child, everyone · **What happens:** not have, do, be, face, speak up, laugh · **To what, where:** fear, Goliath, someone

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Virtues: courage, responsibility, rights and duties» 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 (Courage, you, David, child), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:035-courage-responsibility-rights-and-duties.lesson:0
# text = Courage is not having no fear; it is doing what is right even when you are afraid or it is unpopular, like David facing Goliath, or a child who speaks up when everyone else laughs at someone.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 035-courage-responsibility-rights-and-duties.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Courage	courage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
11	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	13	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
14	even	even	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
15	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	advcl	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	unpopular	unpopular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	facing	face	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	ccomp	_	_
27	Goliath	Goliath	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=33:punct
29	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
32	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj	_	_
33	speaks	speak	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	_
34	up	up	ADP	RP	_	33	compound:prt	_	_
35	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	38	advmod	_	_
36	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	38	nsubj	_	_
37	else	else	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
38	laughs	laugh	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	advcl	_	_
39	at	at	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	38	obl	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **not** **have** | present · progressive | Courage | no fear |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fear=Patient |
| 2 | **do** | present · progressive | Courage |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | right *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | afraid *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | present | Courage |  |  |  |  | unpopular *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **face** | gerund | David or a child |  | Goliath |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent goliath=Destination |
| 7 | **speak up** *speech: other* | present | a child |  |  |  |  |  | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **laugh** | present | everyone |  |  | someone |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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