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title: Christian ethics uses all three: commandments (rules), love for neig… — Three ways of thinking: rules, consequences, cha… · tree and pragmatics
description: Christian ethics uses all three: commandments (rules), love for neighbour's good (consequences) and growing like Christ (character). Who acts: Christian ethics. A sentence of the lesson «Three ways of thinking: rules, consequences, character» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school wi
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# Three ways of thinking: rules, consequences, character, sentence 16

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Christian ethics uses all three: commandments (rules), love for neighbour's good (consequences) and growing like Christ (character).

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**Who acts:** Christian ethics · **What happens:** use, grow · **To what, where:** three

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Three ways of thinking: rules, consequences, character» 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 (Christian ethics), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:037-rules-consequences-character.lesson:16
# text = Christian ethics uses all three: commandments (rules), love for neighbour's good (consequences) and growing like Christ (character).
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 037-rules-consequences-character.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	ethics	ethic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
3	uses	use	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:det
5	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nummod
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct
7	commandments	commandment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
8	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	9	punct	_	_
9	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	appos	_	_
10	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	9	punct	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:appos
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	good	good	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
17	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	18	punct	_	_
18	consequences	consequence	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	appos	_	_
19	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	18	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	conj	_	_
22	like	like	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Christ	Christ	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
24	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	25	punct	_	_
25	character	character	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
26	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	25	punct	_	_
27	.	.	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 | **use** | present | Christian ethics | all three |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **grow** | gerund | Christian ethics *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like Christ | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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:037-rules-consequences-character.lesson:16`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×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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