--- title: Character thinking asks what a good, kind, brave and honest person w… — Three ways of thinking: rules, consequences, cha… · tree and pragmatics description: Character thinking asks what a good, kind, brave and honest person would do; philosophers call it virtue ethics. Who acts: Character thinking, good person, philosophers. 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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, good person, philosophers), 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:7 # text = Character thinking asks what a good, kind, brave and honest person would do; philosophers call it virtue ethics. # 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Character character NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 thinking thinking NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:csubj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger 3 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 15 obj _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 6 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct 8 kind kind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:amod 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 brave brave ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 conj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 honest honest ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 conj _ _ 13 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 14 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 ccomp _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 philosophers philosopher NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 18 call call VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 virtue virtue NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 ethics ethic NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 xcomp _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | Character thinking | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **do** | would | a good person | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | | 3 | **call** | present | philosophers | person | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | 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: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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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. 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