Lifeboat choices, sentence 13
Many people think the most vulnerable, such as small children, should be protected first.
Who acts: Many people · What happens: think, protect · To what, where: vulnerable · 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), 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 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 vulnerable | det |
| 5 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 6 vulnerable | advmod |
| 6 | vulnerable | vulnerable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 protected | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 vulnerable | punct |
| 8 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 11 children | case |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 such | fixed |
| 10 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 children | amod |
| 11 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 vulnerable | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 protected | punct |
| 13 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 protected | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 protected | aux:pass |
| 15 | protected | protect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 think | ccomp |
| 16 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 15 protected | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | 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 | protect | should · passive | the vulnerable such small children | first property | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary |
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:13.
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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