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title: Courage is not having no fear; it is acting well despite fear. — Virtues: courage, responsibility, rights and dut… · tree and pragmatics
description: Courage is not having no fear; it is acting well despite fear. Who acts: Courage. 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 every clause.
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# Virtues: courage, responsibility, rights and duties, sentence 6

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Courage is not having no fear; it is acting well despite fear.

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**Who acts:** Courage · **What happens:** not have, act · **To what, where:** fear

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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), 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:6
# text = Courage is not having no fear; it is acting well despite fear.
# 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): no change
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	acting	act	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	parataxis	_	_
11	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
12	despite	despite	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	.	.	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 | **act** | present · progressive | Courage |  |  |  |  | despite fear; well *property* | vn act-114-1-1 «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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**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:6`.

**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): no change. **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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