Three ways of thinking: rules, consequences, character, sentence 9
"The greatest good for the greatest number" is a consequences idea; it can help, but it can forget the few.
Who acts: greatest good, idea · What happens: be, help, forget · To what, where: consequences idea, few
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 (greatest good, idea), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 good | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 good | det |
| 3 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 good | amod |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 idea | nsubj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 number | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 number | det |
| 7 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 number | amod |
| 8 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 good | obl |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 good | punct |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 idea | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 idea | det |
| 12 | consequences | consequence | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 idea | compound |
| 13 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 help | punct |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 help | nsubj |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 help | aux |
| 17 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 idea | parataxis |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 forget | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 forget | cc |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 forget | nsubj |
| 21 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 forget | aux |
| 22 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 help | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 few | det |
| 24 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 forget | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 idea | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- evaluate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- changed act=evaluate
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the greatest good | a consequences idea | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | help | can | idea | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | forget | can | idea | the few | 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:037-rules-consequences-character.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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