The environment, sentence 3

Some questions are hard, like who should pay to fix the damage; a good answer weighs fairness, who caused the harm and who is able to help.

Who acts: questions, good answer, fairness · What happens: be, pay, fix, weigh, cause, help · To what, where: damage, fairness, harm

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 (questions, good answer, fairness), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 questions	det
2	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hard	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hard	cop
4	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 pay	punct
6	like	like	SCONJ	_	9 pay	mark
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 pay	nsubj
8	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 pay	aux
9	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 hard	advcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 fix	mark
11	fix	fix	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 pay	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 damage	det
13	damage	damage	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fix	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 fairness	punct
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 answer	det
16	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 answer	amod
17	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 weighs	nsubj
18	weighs	weigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hard	parataxis
19	fairness	fairness	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 weighs	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 caused	punct
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 caused	nsubj
22	caused	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 fairness	acl:relcl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 harm	det
24	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 caused	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 able	cc
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 able	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 able	cop
28	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 caused	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 help	mark
30	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 able	xcomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hard	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	some questions		hard property	tree rules
2	pay	should				vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	fix	to-infinitive		the damage		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent damage=Patient
4	weigh	present	a good answer	fairness		vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme fairness=Value
5	cause	past	fairness	the harm		vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition harm=Patient
6	is	present			able property	tree rules
7	help	to-infinitive				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: 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:047-the-environment.lesson:3.

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 ×2. 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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