Sharing and fairness, sentence 18

People disagree whether giving to charity is a kindness you choose or a duty you owe (disputed); many Christians say it is both.

Who acts: People, giving, you, many Christians · What happens: disagree, give, be, choose, owe, dispute · To what, where: charity, kindness, duty · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Sharing and fairness» 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 (People, giving, you, many Christians), 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	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 disagree	nsubj
2	disagree	disagree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	9 kindness	mark
4	giving	give	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 kindness	csubj
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 charity	case
6	charity	charity	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 giving	obl
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 kindness	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 kindness	det
9	kindness	kindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 disagree	ccomp
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 choose	nsubj
11	choose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 kindness	acl:relcl
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 duty	cc
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 duty	det
14	duty	duty	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 kindness	conj
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 owe	nsubj
16	owe	owe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 duty	acl:relcl
17	(	(	PUNCT	_	18 disputed	punct
18	disputed	dispute	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 duty	parataxis
19	)	)	PUNCT	_	18 disputed	punct
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 say	punct
21	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 Christians	amod
22	Christians	Christian	PROPN	Number=Plur	23 say	nsubj
23	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 disagree	parataxis
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 both	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 both	cop
26	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	23 say	ccomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 disagree	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	disagree	present	People			vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	give	gerund			charity	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to charity=Recipient
3	is a	present	giving	a kindness or a duty		tree rules
4	choose	present	you	a kindness or a duty not said here		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kindness=Theme
5	owe	present	you	a duty not said here		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent duty=Theme
6	dispute	participle				vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	say speech: assert	present	many Christians			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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:043-sharing-and-fairness.lesson:18.

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, 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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