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title: Almost every tradition agrees that punishing the innocent is a serio… — Owning up when it is hard · tree and pragmatics
description: Almost every tradition agrees that punishing the innocent is a serious injustice. Who acts: tradition, punishing. A sentence of the lesson «Owning up when it is hard» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Owning up when it is hard, sentence 15

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Almost every tradition agrees that punishing the innocent is a serious injustice.

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**Who acts:** tradition, punishing · **What happens:** agree, punish, be · **To what, where:** innocent, serious injustice · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Owning up when it is hard» 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 (tradition, punishing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:091-owning-up-when-it-is-hard.lesson:15
# text = Almost every tradition agrees that punishing the innocent is a serious injustice.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 091-owning-up-when-it-is-hard.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	Almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	tradition	tradition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	agrees	agree	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
6	punishing	punish	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	csubj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	innocent	innocent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	serious	serious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	injustice	injustice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	ccomp	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **agree** *speech: agree* | present | every tradition |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **punish** | gerund |  | the innocent |  |  |  |  | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent innocent=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | present | punishing | a serious injustice |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:091-owning-up-when-it-is-hard.lesson:15`.

**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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