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title: The Golden Rule says: treat others as you would like to be treated. — The Golden Rule in many traditions · tree and pragmatics
description: The Golden Rule says: treat others as you would like to be treated. Who acts: Golden Rule, you. 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 clause.
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# The Golden Rule in many traditions, sentence 6

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The Golden Rule says: treat others as you would like to be treated.

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**Who acts:** Golden Rule, you · **What happens:** say, treat, like · **To what, where:** others · **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 (Golden Rule, you), 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:6
# text = The Golden Rule says: treat others as you would like to be treated.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Rule	rule	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
4	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
6	treat	treat	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
7	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	treated	treat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	xcomp	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the Golden Rule |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **treat** | infinitive |  | others |  |  |  |  | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent other=Recipient |
| 3 | **like** | would | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **treat** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive · passive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.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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**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:6`.

**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): 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.

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

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