Three ways of thinking: rules, consequences, character, sentence 2

Consequences thinking (consequentialism) looks for the choice with the best results for everyone affected, but it can forget the few if it only counts the many.

Who acts: choice · What happens: think, look, affect, forget, count · To what, where: few, many

This is a sentence of the lesson «Three ways of thinking: rules, consequences, character» 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 (choice), 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	Consequences	consequence	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 thinking	compound
2	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 looks	nsubj
3	(	(	PUNCT	_	4 consequentialism	punct
4	consequentialism	consequentialism	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thinking	appos
5	)	)	PUNCT	_	4 consequentialism	punct
6	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 choice	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 choice	det
9	choice	choice	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 looks	obl
10	with	with	ADP	_	13 results	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 results	det
12	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 results	amod
13	results	result	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 choice	nmod
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 everyone	case
15	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	13 results	nmod
16	affected	affect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 everyone	acl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 forget	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 forget	cc
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 forget	nsubj
20	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 forget	aux
21	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 looks	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 few	det
23	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 forget	obj
24	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 counts	mark
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 counts	nsubj
26	only	only	ADV	_	27 counts	advmod
27	counts	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 forget	advcl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 many	det
29	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 counts	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 looks	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	gerund				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	look	present			for the choice with the best results for everyone	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for choice=Theme
3	affect	participle				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	forget	can	choice	the few		tree rules
5	count a condition, not said to happen	present	choice	the many		vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Theme

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:037-rules-consequences-character.lesson:2.

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. 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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