Olympiad: fair or unfair, chains of reasons and dilemmas ★★★, sentence 9

Fair ways to share something scarce include drawing lots, a waiting list and helping those in greatest need; choosing your friends is favouritism.

Who acts: Fair ways, choosing · What happens: share, include, draw, help, choose, be · To what, where: something, lots, those, greatest need, friends, favouritism

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 (Fair ways, choosing), 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	Fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 ways	amod
2	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 include	nsubj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 share	mark
4	share	share	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 ways	acl
5	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 share	obj
6	scarce	scarce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 something	amod
7	include	include	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	drawing	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 include	obj
9	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 drawing	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 list	punct
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 list	det
12	waiting	waiting	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 list	compound
13	list	list	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lots	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 helping	cc
15	helping	help	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 drawing	conj
16	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	15 helping	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 need	case
18	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	19 need	amod
19	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 those	nmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 include	punct
21	choosing	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 favouritism	csubj
22	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 friends	nmod:poss
23	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 choosing	obj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 favouritism	cop
25	favouritism	favouritism	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 include	parataxis
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 include	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	share	to-infinitive	Fair ways not said here	something		tree rules
2	include	present	Fair ways			vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	draw	gerund		lots and a waiting list		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Theme
4	help	gerund		those	greatest need	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Beneficiary
5	choose	gerund		your friends		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Theme
6	is a	present	choosing	favouritism		tree rules

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:9.

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, 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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