--- title: A duty is something we ought to do because it is right, like keeping… — Three ways of thinking: rules, consequences, cha… · tree and pragmatics description: A duty is something we ought to do because it is right, like keeping a promise, even when we do not feel like it. Who acts: duty, we. 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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 (duty, we), 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:8 # text = A duty is something we ought to do because it is right, like keeping a promise, even when we do not feel like it. # 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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 duty duty NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 0 root _ _ 5 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nsubj 6 ought ought AUX MD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:aux 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:acl:relcl 9 because because SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 12 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 advcl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 like like SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 15 keeping keep VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:conj 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 promise promise NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 19 even even ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 20 when when SCONJ WRB _ 24 mark _ _ 21 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 22 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 23 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 24 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advcl 25 like like ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a duty | something | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **do** | to-infinitive | a duty *not said here* | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | present | duty | | | | | right *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **keep** | gerund | duty *not said here* | a promise | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme | | 5 | **not** **feel** | present · do-support | we | | | | | like duty | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent like it=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:8`. **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 ×4, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Three ways of thinking: rules, consequ…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/37-rules-consequences-character/7/) - next →: [Three ways of thinking: rules, consequ…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/37-rules-consequences-character/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/37-rules-consequences-character/)