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title: For a child today this means listening to both sides, speaking kindl… — Rights, duties and community dilemmas · tree and pragmatics
description: For a child today this means listening to both sides, speaking kindly about other people's faith, and helping to mend a broken friendship rather than only punishing. Who acts: this. A sentence of the lesson «Rights, duties and community dilemmas» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary schoo
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# Rights, duties and community dilemmas, sentence 4

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For a child today this means listening to both sides, speaking kindly about other people's faith, and helping to mend a broken friendship rather than only punishing.

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**Who acts:** this · **What happens:** mean, listen, speak, help, mend, break · **To what, where:** broken friendship · **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 (this), 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:4
# text = For a child today this means listening to both sides, speaking kindly about other people's faith, and helping to mend a broken friendship rather than only punishing.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:nsubj
4	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod:unmarked	_	_
5	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj	_	_
6	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	listening	listen	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	ccomp	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	conj	_	_
13	kindly	kindly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	about	about	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	faith	faith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	helping	help	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	conj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	mend	mend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	amod	_	_
26	friendship	friendship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	rather	rather	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	30	cc	_	_
28	than	than	ADP	IN	_	27	fixed	_	_
29	only	only	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	punishing	punish	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	conj	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | this |  |  |  |  | for a child  today | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **listen** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | to both sides | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to side=Theme |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | about other people's faith; kindly *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about faith=Topic |
| 4 | **help** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **mend** | to-infinitive |  | a broken friendship |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **break** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **punish** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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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**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): R7-rel-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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