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title: The Bible says "be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become… — How to argue: counter-arguments and respect · tree and pragmatics
description: The Bible says "be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry" (James 1:19). Who acts: Bible. A sentence of the lesson «How to argue: counter-arguments and respect» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# How to argue: counter-arguments and respect, sentence 17

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The Bible says "be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry" (James 1:19).

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**Who acts:** Bible · **What happens:** say, be, listen, speak, become · **To what, where:** James · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «How to argue: counter-arguments and respect» 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 (Bible), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:040-how-to-argue-counter-arguments-and-respect.lesson:17
# text = The Bible says "be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry" (James 1:19).
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 040-how-to-argue-counter-arguments-and-respect.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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Bible	Bible	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
6	quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	listen	listen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct
19	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	20	punct	_	_
20	James	James	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
21	1:19	1:19	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	flat	_	_
22	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	20	punct	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- 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 Bible | James |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | quick *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **listen** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **be** *in a quote* |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **speak** *speech: other* *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **become** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | angry *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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:040-how-to-argue-counter-arguments-and-respect.lesson:17`.

**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): R6-punct-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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