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title: Moral courage is everyday courage: standing up for someone, saying n… — Virtues: courage, responsibility, rights and dut… · tree and pragmatics
description: Moral courage is everyday courage: standing up for someone, saying no to a dare, or owning up to a mistake; it is hard, but it builds trust and character. Who acts: Moral courage, everyday courage, Courage. A sentence of the lesson «Virtues: courage, responsibility, rights and duties» of the religio
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# Virtues: courage, responsibility, rights and duties, sentence 1

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Moral courage is everyday courage: standing up for someone, saying no to a dare, or owning up to a mistake; it is hard, but it builds trust and character.

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**Who acts:** Moral courage, everyday courage, Courage · **What happens:** be, stand up, say, own up, build · **To what, where:** everyday courage, no, dare, trust · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Moral courage, everyday courage, Courage), 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:1
# text = Moral courage is everyday courage: standing up for someone, saying no to a dare, or owning up to a mistake; it is hard, but it builds trust and character.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×3
1	Moral	moral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	courage	courage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	everyday	everyday	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	courage	courage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
7	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	7	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:advcl
13	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	12	obj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	dare	dare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	owning	own	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	mistake	mistake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:expl
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	builds	build	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
32	trust	trust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	character	character	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Moral courage | everyday courage |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **stand up** | gerund | everyday courage *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for someone | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | everyday courage *not said here* | no | a dare |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent no=Topic to dare=Recipient |
| 4 | **own up** | gerund | everyday courage *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to a mistake | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 5 | **is** | present | Courage |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **build** | present | Courage | trust and character |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material trust=Product |

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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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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:religion-ethics:035-courage-responsibility-rights-and-duties.lesson:1`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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