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title: For a child today: favouritism hurts, being right is not the same as… — Joseph and his brothers · tree and pragmatics
description: For a child today: favouritism hurts, being right is not the same as speaking wisely, one wrong leads to bigger ones, and you can do good even in a hard place. Who acts: favouritism, right, one, you. A sentence of the lesson «Joseph and his brothers» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary s
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# Joseph and his brothers, sentence 4

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For a child today: favouritism hurts, being right is not the same as speaking wisely, one wrong leads to bigger ones, and you can do good even in a hard place.

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**Who acts:** favouritism, right, one, you · **What happens:** hurt, be, not be, speak, lead, do · **To what, where:** bigger ones, good, hard place · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Joseph and his brothers» 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 (favouritism, right, one, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:005-joseph-and-his-brothers.lesson:4
# text = For a child today: favouritism hurts, being right is not the same as speaking wisely, one wrong leads to bigger ones, and you can do good even in a hard place.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 005-joseph-and-his-brothers.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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	14	obl	_	_
4	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod:unmarked	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
6	favouritism	favouritism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	hurts	hurt	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct
9	being	be	AUX	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	cop	_	_
10	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
15	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
17	wisely	wisely	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nsubj	_	_
20	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
21	leads	lead	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	24	amod	_	_
24	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:conj
30	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	obj	_	_
31	even	even	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hurt** | present | favouritism |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | right *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **is** | present | right |  |  |  |  | for a child  today; same *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund | right *not said here* |  |  |  |  | wisely *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **lead** | present | one |  | bigger ones |  |  |  | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to one=Patient |
| 6 | **do** | can | you | good |  | a hard place |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality |

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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:005-joseph-and-his-brothers.lesson:4`.

**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): R5-strong ×1, 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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