--- title: Good rules protect people; unfair rules can be changed by fair and p… — Virtues: courage, responsibility, rights and dut… · tree and pragmatics description: Good rules protect people; unfair rules can be changed by fair and peaceful means. Who acts: Good rules, fair means. A sentence of the lesson «Virtues: courage, responsibility, rights and duties» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/35-courage-responsibility-rights-and-duties/15/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/) / [Virtues: courage, responsibility, righ…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/35-courage-responsibility-rights-and-duties/) / 15 # Virtues: courage, responsibility, rights and duties, sentence 15 Good rules protect people; unfair rules can be changed by fair and peaceful means. **Who acts:** Good rules, fair means · **What happens:** protect, change · **To what, where:** people, unfair rules 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 (Good rules, fair means), 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:15 # text = Good rules protect people; unfair rules can be changed by fair and peaceful means. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 rules rule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 protect protect VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 ; ; PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct 6 unfair unfair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 rules rule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 8 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 9 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 10 aux:pass _ _ 10 changed change VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 11 by by ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 12 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 peaceful peaceful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 conj _ _ 15 means means NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 10 obl _ _ 16 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **protect** | present | Good rules | | people | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Beneficiary | | 2 | **change** | can · passive | fair means | unfair rules | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | 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. **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:15`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-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/). - ← previous: [Virtues: courage, responsibility, righ…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/35-courage-responsibility-rights-and-duties/14/) - next →: [Virtues: courage, responsibility, righ…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/35-courage-responsibility-rights-and-duties/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/35-courage-responsibility-rights-and-duties/)