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title: Humanists use the Golden Rule as a reasoned basis for treating other… — The Golden Rule in many traditions · tree and pragmatics
description: Humanists use the Golden Rule as a reasoned basis for treating others well, without needing belief in God. Who acts: Humanists. A sentence of the lesson «The Golden Rule in many traditions» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# The Golden Rule in many traditions, sentence 16

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Humanists use the Golden Rule as a reasoned basis for treating others well, without needing belief in God.

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**Who acts:** Humanists · **What happens:** use, treat, need · **To what, where:** Golden Rule, others, belief

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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 (Humanists), 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:16
# text = Humanists use the Golden Rule as a reasoned basis for treating others well, without needing belief in God.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Humanists	humanist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Rule	rule	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	reasoned	reasoned	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	basis	basis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	treating	treat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
12	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
13	well	well	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	needing	need	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
17	belief	belief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | Humanists | the Golden Rule |  |  |  | as a reasoned basis | vn spend\_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent rule=Duration as basis=Attribute |
| 2 | **treat** | gerund | Humanists *not said here* | others |  |  |  | well *property* | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent other=Recipient |
| 3 | **need** | gerund | Humanists *not said here* | belief |  |  |  | in God | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot belief=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:038-the-golden-rule-in-many-traditions.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 ×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.

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