--- title: Character thinking (virtue ethics) says we become what we repeatedly… — Three ways of thinking: rules, consequences, cha… · tree and pragmatics description: Character thinking (virtue ethics) says we become what we repeatedly do: practise honesty and courage and you grow honest and brave; practise greed and cruelty and you grow greedy and cruel. Who acts: Character thinking, we, 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 (Character thinking, we, you), 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:3 # text = Character thinking (virtue ethics) says we become what we repeatedly do: practise honesty and courage and you grow honest and brave; practise greed and cruelty and you grow greedy and cruel. # 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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Character character NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nsubj 2 thinking thinking NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger 3 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 5 punct _ _ 4 virtue virtue NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 ethics ethic NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:obl 6 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 5 punct _ _ 7 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 become become VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 ccomp _ _ 10 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 13 obj _ _ 11 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 repeatedly repeatedly ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 ccomp _ _ 14 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 15 practise practise VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 16 honesty honesty NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 courage courage NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:conj 22 honest honest ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 xcomp _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 brave brave ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 conj _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct 26 practise practise VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 27 greed greed NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 cruelty cruelty NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 33 greedy greedy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 xcomp _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 cruel cruel ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 conj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Character thinking | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **become** | present | we | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **do** | present | we | | | | | repeatedly *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | | 4 | **practise** | infinitive | | honesty and courage | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **grow** | present | you | | | | | honest *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **practise** | infinitive | | greed and cruelty | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **grow** | present | you | | | | | greedy *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:037-rules-consequences-character.lesson:3`. **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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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