Lifeboat choices, sentence 11
Many people think there is a difference between doing harm and allowing harm, though this is disputed.
Who acts: Many people, difference · What happens: think, be, do, allow, dispute · To what, where: harm, this · 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 (Many people, difference), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 people | amod |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 think | nsubj |
| 3 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 is | expl |
| 5 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 think | ccomp |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 difference | det |
| 7 | difference | difference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 is | nsubj |
| 8 | between | between | SCONJ | _ | 9 doing | mark |
| 9 | doing | do | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 difference | acl |
| 10 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 doing | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 allowing | cc |
| 12 | allowing | allow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 doing | conj |
| 13 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 allowing | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 disputed | punct |
| 15 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 18 disputed | mark |
| 16 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 disputed | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 disputed | aux:pass |
| 18 | disputed | dispute | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 think | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | Many people | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | be | present | a difference | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | do | gerund | a difference not said here | harm | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | allow | gerund | a difference not said here | harm | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=Beneficiary | ||||
| 5 | dispute | present · passive | this | tree rules |
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:11.
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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