The environment, sentence 12
Future generations are the people who will live after us; fairness includes not using up what they will need.
Who acts: Future generations, people, fairness, generations · What happens: be, live, include, not use up, need · To what, where: people
This is a sentence of the lesson «The environment» 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 (Future generations, people, fairness, generations), 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 | Future | future | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 generations | amod |
| 2 | generations | generation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 people | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 people | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 people | det |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 live | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 live | aux |
| 8 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 people | acl:relcl |
| 9 | after | after | ADP | _ | 10 us | case |
| 10 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 live | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 includes | punct |
| 12 | fairness | fairness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 includes | nsubj |
| 13 | includes | include | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 people | parataxis |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 using | advmod |
| 15 | using | use | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 includes | xcomp |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 using | compound:prt |
| 17 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 need | obj |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 need | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 need | aux |
| 20 | need | need | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 using | ccomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 people | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Future generations | the people | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | live | future | the people | after us | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | include | present | fairness | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | not use up | gerund | fairness not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | need | future | generations = generation | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=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:047-the-environment.lesson:12.
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): no change. 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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