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title: Thankfulness leads to kindness: we do not hurt living things for fun… — Life is precious: wonder and gratitude · tree and pragmatics
description: Thankfulness leads to kindness: we do not hurt living things for fun, and at harvest festival churches fill up with tins and bread to share with people who do not have enough. Who acts: Thankfulness, we, festival churches, people. A sentence of the lesson «Life is precious: wonder and gratitude» of 
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# Life is precious: wonder and gratitude, sentence 4

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Thankfulness leads to kindness: we do not hurt living things for fun, and at harvest festival churches fill up with tins and bread to share with people who do not have enough.

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**Who acts:** Thankfulness, we, festival churches, people · **What happens:** lead, not hurt, live, fill up, share, not have · **To what, where:** living things, enough

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Life is precious: wonder and gratitude» 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 (Thankfulness, we, festival churches, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:054-life-is-precious-wonder-and-gratitude.lesson:4
# text = Thankfulness leads to kindness: we do not hurt living things for fun, and at harvest festival churches fill up with tins and bread to share with people who do not have enough.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 054-life-is-precious-wonder-and-gratitude.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Thankfulness	thankfulness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	leads	lead	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	kindness	kindness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
6	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	hurt	hurt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
10	living	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
11	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	fun	fun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	harvest	harvest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	festival	festival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	churches	church	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:obl
20	fill	fill	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
21	up	up	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	tins	tin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	share	share	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
30	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj	_	_
31	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
33	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	acl:relcl	_	_
34	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	obj	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | present | Thankfulness |  |  |  |  | to kindness | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to kindness=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **hurt** | present · do-support | we | living things |  |  |  | for fun | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Patient |
| 3 | **live** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **fill up** | present | festival churches |  |  |  |  | with tins and bread | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with tin=Instrument |
| 5 | **share** | to-infinitive | festival churches *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with people | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **have** | present · do-support | people | enough |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enough=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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**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, 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.

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