Olympiad: fair or unfair, chains of reasons and dilemmas ★★★, sentence 5

Fairness means no favourites; it can mean equal shares, shares by need, or shares by effort, and people disagree about which fits best in a given case.

Who acts: Fairness, people, need, effort · What happens: mean, disagree, fit, give, share · To what, where: favourites, equal shares, given case

This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: fair or unfair, chains of reasons and 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 (Fairness, people, need, effort), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fairness	fairness	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 favourites	det
4	favourites	favourite	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 means	obj
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 mean	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 mean	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 mean	aux
8	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 means	parataxis
9	equal	equal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 shares	amod
10	shares	share	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 mean	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 shares	punct
12	shares	share	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 shares	conj
13	by	by	ADP	_	14 need	case
14	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 shares	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 shares	punct
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 shares	cc
17	shares	share	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 shares	conj
18	by	by	ADP	_	19 effort	case
19	effort	effort	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 shares	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 disagree	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 disagree	cc
22	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 disagree	nsubj
23	disagree	disagree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 mean	conj
24	about	about	SCONJ	_	26 fits	mark
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 fits	nsubj
26	fits	fit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 disagree	advcl
27	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	26 fits	advmod
28	in	in	ADP	_	31 case	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 case	det
30	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 case	amod
31	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 fits	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Fairness	no favourites			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent favourite=Topic
2	mean	can	Fairness	equal shares and shares by need or shares by effort			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent share=Topic
3	disagree	present	people				vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	fit	present			a given case	well property	vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent in case=Trajectory
5	give	participle					vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
6	share		need				nom share «possession transitive»: by=agent
7	share		effort				nom share «possession transitive»: by=agent

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.

Licence: CC 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:103-olympiad-fair-or-unfair-chains-of-reasons-and-dilemmas.lesson:5.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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