Lifeboat choices, sentence 1
Ethics asks not only "what should we choose?" but "how should we choose?": a fair way, such as drawing lots, a waiting list or helping the one in greatest need, can be better than picking favourites.
Who acts: Ethics, we, fair way · What happens: ask, not choose, choose, draw, help, be · To what, where: one, greatest need, favourites · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Lifeboat choices» 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 (Ethics, we, fair way), 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 | Ethics | ethic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 asks | nsubj |
| 2 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 choose | advmod |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 9 choose | advmod |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 choose | punct |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 choose | obj |
| 7 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 choose | aux |
| 8 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 choose | nsubj |
| 9 | choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 asks | ccomp |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ethics | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 choose | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 choose | cc |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 choose | punct |
| 14 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 choose | advmod |
| 15 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 choose | aux |
| 16 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 choose | nsubj |
| 17 | choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 choose | conj |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 17 choose | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 choose | punct |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 43 better | punct |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 way | det |
| 22 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 way | amod |
| 23 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 better | nsubj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 lots | punct |
| 25 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 28 lots | case |
| 26 | as | as | ADP | _ | 25 such | fixed |
| 27 | drawing | draw | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 lots | amod |
| 28 | lots | lot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 way | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 list | punct |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 list | det |
| 31 | waiting | waiting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 list | compound |
| 32 | list | list | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 way | appos |
| 33 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 34 helping | cc |
| 34 | helping | help | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 list | conj |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 one | det |
| 36 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 helping | obj |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 need | case |
| 38 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 39 need | amod |
| 39 | need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 one | nmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 way | punct |
| 41 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 43 better | aux |
| 42 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 43 better | cop |
| 43 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 asks | parataxis |
| 44 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 45 picking | mark |
| 45 | picking | pick | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 43 better | advcl |
| 46 | favourites | favourite | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 picking | obj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 43 better | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | Ethics | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not choose in a quote | should | we | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme | |||||
| 3 | choose in a quote | should | we | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | draw | gerund | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | help | gerund | a fair way and drawing lots not said here | the one | greatest need | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Beneficiary | |||
| 6 | is | can | a fair way and drawing lots | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | pick | gerund | a fair way and drawing lots not said here | favourites | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent favourite=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:048-lifeboat-choices.lesson:1.
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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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