--- title: Good rules protect people, though some rules can be unfair and need… — Virtues: courage, responsibility, rights and dut… · tree and pragmatics description: Good rules protect people, though some rules can be unfair and need changing by fair means; self-control and perseverance, managing your wants and keeping going when it is hard, help you do the right thing day after day. Who acts: Good rules, rules, perseverance, you. 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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, rules, perseverance, you), 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:4 # text = Good rules protect people, though some rules can be unfair and need changing by fair means; self-control and perseverance, managing your wants and keeping going when it is hard, help you do the right thing day after day. # 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): R1-cc-next ×3, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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 , _ 11 punct _ _ 6 though though SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 7 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 8 det _ _ 8 rules rule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 9 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 10 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 11 cop _ _ 11 unfair unfair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=11:cc 13 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 14 changing change VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 xcomp _ _ 15 by by ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 means means NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 14 obl _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 self self NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 20 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 19 punct _ _ 21 control control NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 acl:relcl _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=21:cc 23 perseverance perseverance NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 25 managing manage VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 36 advcl _ _ 26 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 wants want NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=25:cc 29 keeping keep VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 25 conj _ _ 30 going go VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 29 xcomp _ _ 31 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 34 advmod _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=34:expl 33 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 34 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 xcomp _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 36 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=11:conj 37 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ _ 38 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 xcomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=36:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=42:det 40 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=42:amod 41 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=42:compound 42 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl:unmarked _ _ 43 after after ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nmod _ _ 45 . . 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 | **is** | can | some rules | | | | | unfair *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **need** | present | some rules *not said here* | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 4 | **change** *not said to happen* | gerund | some rules *not said here* | | | | | by fair means | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **manage** | gerund | | your wants | | | | | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent want=Theme | | 6 | **keep** | gerund | | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **go** | gerund | | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **is** | present | perseverance | | | | | hard *property* | tree rules | | 9 | **help** | infinitive | Good rules *not said here* | you | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 10 | **do** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the right thing | | | day | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | | 11 | **want** | | your | | | | | | nom want «state transitive»: poss=agent | 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:4`. **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 ×3, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×3, 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. 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