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title: Moral courage means standing up for what is right, for example speak… — Virtues: courage, responsibility, rights and dut… · tree and pragmatics
description: Moral courage means standing up for what is right, for example speaking up for someone or admitting a mistake. Who acts: Moral 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 t
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# Virtues: courage, responsibility, rights and duties, sentence 7

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Moral courage means standing up for what is right, for example speaking up for someone or admitting a mistake.

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**Who acts:** Moral courage · **What happens:** mean, stand up, be, speak up, admit · **To what, where:** mistake

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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), 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:7
# text = Moral courage means standing up for what is right, for example speaking up for someone or admitting a mistake.
# 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): R5-strong ×2
1	Moral	moral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	courage	courage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	obl	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:obl
13	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:acl
14	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	13	obl	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	admitting	admit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	conj	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	mistake	mistake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **mean** | present | Moral courage |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **stand up** *not said to happen* | gerund | Moral courage *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | right *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **speak up** *speech: other* | gerund | Moral courage *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for example; for someone | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **admit** *speech: other* | gerund | Moral courage *not said here* | a mistake |  |  |  |  | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistake=Theme |

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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:7`.

**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): R5-strong ×2. **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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