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title: Jesus' version is positive (do good); many others are negative (do n… — The Golden Rule in many traditions · tree and pragmatics
description: Jesus' version is positive (do good); many others are negative (do not harm); the negative form is sometimes called the "silver rule". Who acts: version, many others. A sentence of the lesson «The Golden Rule in many traditions» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its depende
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# The Golden Rule in many traditions, sentence 11

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Jesus' version is positive (do good); many others are negative (do not harm); the negative form is sometimes called the "silver rule".

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**Who acts:** version, many others · **What happens:** be, not harm, call · **To what, where:** negative form · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Golden Rule in many traditions» 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 (version, many others), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:038-the-golden-rule-in-many-traditions.lesson:11
# text = Jesus' version is positive (do good); many others are negative (do not harm); the negative form is sometimes called the "silver rule".
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 038-the-golden-rule-in-many-traditions.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Jesus	Jesus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	'	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	version	version	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	positive	positive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct
7	do	do	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux	_	_
8	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
9	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	8	punct	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
11	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	negative	negative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
15	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	18	punct	_	_
16	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	harm	harm	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
19	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	18	punct	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	negative	negative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
25	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	26	advmod	_	_
26	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=14:conj
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	_
29	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	xcomp	_	_
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Jesus's version |  |  |  |  | positive *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** | infinitive · do-support | Jesus's version *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | many others |  |  |  |  | negative *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **harm** | infinitive · do-support |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **call** | present · passive |  | the negative form |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |

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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, 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.

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

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