Lifeboat choices, sentence 12
"Women and children first" was an old rule for shipwrecks; people still discuss whether it is fair.
Who acts: Women, people, difference · What happens: be, discuss · To what, where: old rule · 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 (Women, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 rule | punct |
| 2 | Women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 rule | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 children | cc |
| 4 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Women | conj |
| 5 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 2 Women | advmod |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 rule | punct |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 rule | cop |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 rule | det |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 rule | amod |
| 10 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 shipwrecks | case |
| 12 | shipwrecks | shipwreck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 rule | nmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 discuss | punct |
| 14 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 discuss | nsubj |
| 15 | still | still | ADV | _ | 16 discuss | advmod |
| 16 | discuss | discuss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 rule | parataxis |
| 17 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 20 fair | mark |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 fair | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 fair | cop |
| 20 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 discuss | ccomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 rule | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Women and children | a old rule | for shipwrecks | tree rules | |||
| 2 | discuss speech: other | present | people | still | vn chit_chat-37.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | present | difference | fair property | 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: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): R8-pos-agree ×1. 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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