Three ways of thinking: rules, consequences, character, sentence 7
Character thinking asks what a good, kind, brave and honest person would do; philosophers call it virtue ethics.
Who acts: Character thinking, good person, philosophers · What happens: ask, do, call · To what, where: person · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Character thinking, good person, philosophers), 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 | Character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 thinking | compound |
| 2 | thinking | thinking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 asks | nsubj |
| 3 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 do | obj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 person | det |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 person | amod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 kind | punct |
| 8 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 good | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 brave | punct |
| 10 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 kind | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 honest | cc |
| 12 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 kind | conj |
| 13 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 do | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 do | aux |
| 15 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 asks | ccomp |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 call | punct |
| 17 | philosophers | philosopher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 call | nsubj |
| 18 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 asks | parataxis |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 call | obj |
| 20 | virtue | virtue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 ethics | compound |
| 21 | ethics | ethic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 call | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 asks | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | Character thinking | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | do | would | a good person | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | call | present | philosophers | person | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient |
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:7.
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, R6-punct-agree ×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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