Three ways of thinking: rules, consequences, character, sentence 8

A duty is something we ought to do because it is right, like keeping a promise, even when we do not feel like it.

Who acts: duty, we · What happens: be, do, keep, not feel · To what, where: something, promise

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 (duty, we), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 duty	det
2	duty	duty	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 something	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 something	cop
4	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	root	root
5	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 ought	nsubj
6	ought	ought	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 something	acl:relcl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 do	mark
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 ought	xcomp
9	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 right	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 right	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 right	cop
12	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 do	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 keeping	punct
14	like	like	SCONJ	_	15 keeping	mark
15	keeping	keep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 right	advcl
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 promise	det
17	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 keeping	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 feel	punct
19	even	even	ADV	_	24 feel	advmod
20	when	when	SCONJ	_	24 feel	mark
21	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 feel	nsubj
22	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 feel	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 feel	advmod
24	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 keeping	advcl
25	like	like	ADP	_	26 it	case
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 feel	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 something	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a duty	something		tree rules
2	do	to-infinitive	a duty not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	duty		right property	tree rules
4	keep	gerund	duty not said here	a promise		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme
5	not feel	present · do-support	we		like duty	vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent like it=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:8.

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 ×4, 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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