The environment, sentence 14
The tragedy of the commons is when everyone uses a shared thing for themselves until it is ruined for all.
Who acts: tragedy · What happens: be, share, ruin · To what, where: tragedy
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 (tragedy), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 tragedy | det |
| 2 | tragedy | tragedy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 uses | nsubj:outer |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 commons | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 commons | det |
| 5 | commons | common | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 tragedy | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 uses | cop |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 uses | advmod |
| 8 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 9 uses | nsubj |
| 9 | uses | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 thing | det |
| 11 | shared | share | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 thing | amod |
| 12 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 uses | obj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 themselves | case |
| 14 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 uses | obl |
| 15 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 18 ruined | mark |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 ruined | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 ruined | aux:pass |
| 18 | ruined | ruin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 uses | advcl |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 all | case |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 ruined | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 uses | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the tragedy of the commons | for things = thing; use property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | share | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | ruin | present · passive | tragedy | for all | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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:14.
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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