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title: Punishment can protect people, show that a wrong was serious and hel… — Rights, duties and community dilemmas · tree and pragmatics
description: Punishment can protect people, show that a wrong was serious and help the wrongdoer change. Who acts: Punishment, wrong, wrongdoer. A sentence of the lesson «Rights, duties and community dilemmas» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Rights, duties and community dilemmas, sentence 14

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Punishment can protect people, show that a wrong was serious and help the wrongdoer change.

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**Who acts:** Punishment, wrong, wrongdoer · **What happens:** protect, show, be, help, change · **To what, where:** people · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Punishment, wrong, wrongdoer), 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:14
# text = Punishment can protect people, show that a wrong was serious and help the wrongdoer change.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Punishment	punishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	protect	protect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	wrong	wrong	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:nsubj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	serious	serious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	ccomp	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	wrongdoer	wrongdoer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed polarity=pos

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **protect** | can | Punishment |  | people |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **show** | infinitive | Punishment *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | a wrong |  |  |  |  | serious *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **help** | infinitive | Punishment *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **change** | infinitive | the wrongdoer |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:14`.

**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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