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title: Free speech is precious, but so is not causing needless hurt: we can… — Rights, duties and community dilemmas · tree and pragmatics
description: Free speech is precious, but so is not causing needless hurt: we can disagree with someone's religion without mocking what they hold holy. Who acts: Free speech, we, rights. A sentence of the lesson «Rights, duties and community dilemmas» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with i
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# Rights, duties and community dilemmas, sentence 1

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Free speech is precious, but so is not causing needless hurt: we can disagree with someone's religion without mocking what they hold holy.

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**Who acts:** Free speech, we, rights · **What happens:** be, not cause, disagree, mock, hold · **To what, where:** needless hurt

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Rights, duties and community dilemmas» 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 (Free speech, we, rights), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:049-rights-duties-and-community.lesson:1
# text = Free speech is precious, but so is not causing needless hurt: we can disagree with someone's religion without mocking what they hold holy.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 049-rights-duties-and-community.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): no change
1	Free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	speech	speech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	causing	cause	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
11	needless	needless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	hurt	hurt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
14	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	disagree	disagree	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	's	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	religion	religion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
22	mocking	mock	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
23	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	22	obj	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	hold	hold	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
26	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **is** | present | Free speech |  |  |  |  | precious *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **cause** | present · progressive | we *not said here* | needless hurt |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition hurt=Patient |
| 3 | **disagree** | can | we |  |  |  |  | with someone's religion | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme whether S»: agent=Agent with religion=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **mock** | gerund | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
| 5 | **hold** | present | rights *= right* |  |  |  |  | holy *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:049-rights-duties-and-community.lesson:1`.

**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): no change. **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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