---
title: "Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to becom… — Honest with yourself: excuses, pride and the tru… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry" (James 1:19); olympiad judges give points for engaging fairly with the other side. Who acts: Everyone, olympiad judges. A sentence of the lesson «Honest with yourself: excuses, pride and the truth inside» of the religion et
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/98-honest-with-yourself-excuses-pride-and-the-truth-inside/16/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/) / [Honest with yourself: excuses, pride a…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/98-honest-with-yourself-excuses-pride-and-the-truth-inside/) / 16

# Honest with yourself: excuses, pride and the truth inside, sentence 16

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
"Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry" (James 1:19); olympiad judges give points for engaging fairly with the other side.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Everyone, olympiad judges · **What happens:** be, listen, speak, become, give, engage · **To what, where:** points · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of the lesson «Honest with yourself: excuses, pride and the truth inside» 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 (Everyone, olympiad judges), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:098-honest-with-yourself-excuses-pride-and-the-truth-inside.lesson:16
# text = "Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry" (James 1:19); olympiad judges give points for engaging fairly with the other side.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 098-honest-with-yourself-excuses-pride-and-the-truth-inside.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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
2	Everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	5	nsubj	_	_
3	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
5	quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	listen	listen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct
18	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	19	punct	_	_
19	James	James	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
20	1:19	1:19	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	flat	_	_
21	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	19	punct	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	olympiad	olympiad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	judges	judge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
26	points	point	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
27	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
28	engaging	engage	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
29	fairly	fairly	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- sa -->
- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | should | Everyone |  |  |  |  | quick *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **listen** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Everyone *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **be** *in a quote* |  | Everyone *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **speak** *speech: other* *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Everyone *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **become** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Everyone *not said here* |  |  |  |  | angry *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **give** | present | olympiad judges | points |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent point=Theme |
| 7 | **engage** | gerund | olympiad judges *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the other side; fairly *property* | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient with side=Co-Patient |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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:098-honest-with-yourself-excuses-pride-and-the-truth-inside.lesson:16`.

**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): 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/).

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Honest with yourself: excuses, pride a…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/98-honest-with-yourself-excuses-pride-and-the-truth-inside/15/)
- next →: [Honest with yourself: excuses, pride a…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/98-honest-with-yourself-excuses-pride-and-the-truth-inside/17/)
- ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/98-honest-with-yourself-excuses-pride-and-the-truth-inside/)

