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title: For a child today this is good practice for real life: at school or… — What is an ethics olympiad? · tree and pragmatics
description: For a child today this is good practice for real life: at school or at home you can slow down, ask who is affected, listen, and give your reasons kindly, which is also what Jesus' command to love your neighbour asks of a Christian. Who acts: this, you, Jesus. A sentence of the lesson «What is an eth
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# What is an ethics olympiad?, sentence 4

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For a child today this is good practice for real life: at school or at home you can slow down, ask who is affected, listen, and give your reasons kindly, which is also what Jesus' command to love your neighbour asks of a Christian.

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**Who acts:** this, you, Jesus · **What happens:** be, slow down, ask, affect, listen, give · **To what, where:** good practice, school, reasons, neighbour · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «What is an ethics olympiad?» 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 (this, you, Jesus), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:036-what-is-an-ethics-olympiad.lesson:4
# text = For a child today this is good practice for real life: at school or at home you can slow down, ask who is affected, listen, and give your reasons kindly, which is also what Jesus' command to love your neighbour asks of a Christian.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 036-what-is-an-ethics-olympiad.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod:unmarked	_	_
5	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	practice	practice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	slow	slow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj
21	down	down	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	affected	affect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	ccomp	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	listen	listen	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=28:conj
32	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	reasons	reason	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	_
34	kindly	kindly	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
36	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	47	nsubj	_	_
37	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	47	cop	_	_
38	also	also	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
39	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	47	obj	_	_
40	Jesus	Jesus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	nmod:poss	_	_
41	'	's	PART	POS	_	40	case	_	_
42	command	command	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nsubj	_	_
43	to	to	PART	TO	_	44	mark	_	_
44	love	love	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	acl	_	_
45	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	_
47	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	parataxis	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	Christian	Christian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=47:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed polarity=pos

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | this | good practice |  |  |  | for a child  today; for real life | tree rules |
| 2 | **slow down** | can | you |  |  | school or home |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **affect** | present · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 5 | **listen** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **give** | infinitive | you *not said here* | your reasons |  |  |  | kindly *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Theme |
| 7 | **love** | to-infinitive |  | your neighbour |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer neighbour=Stimulus |
| 8 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | of a Christian; ask *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **command** |  | Jesus |  |  |  |  |  | nom command «communication transitive»: poss=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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**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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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