Lifeboat choices, sentence 4
Sometimes there is no perfect answer; then a child today can still choose the least bad option, give honest reasons and treat everyone with respect.
Who acts: perfect answer, child · What happens: be, choose, give, treat · To what, where: least bad option, honest reasons, everyone
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 (perfect answer, child), 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 | Sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 3 is | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 answer | det |
| 5 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 answer | amod |
| 6 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 is | nsubj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 choose | punct |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 choose | advmod |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 child | det |
| 10 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 choose | nsubj |
| 11 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 choose | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 choose | aux |
| 13 | still | still | ADV | _ | 14 choose | advmod |
| 14 | choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 is | parataxis |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 option | det |
| 16 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 18 option | amod |
| 17 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 option | amod |
| 18 | option | option | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 choose | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 give | punct |
| 20 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 choose | conj |
| 21 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 reasons | amod |
| 22 | reasons | reason | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 give | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 treat | cc |
| 24 | treat | treat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 choose | conj |
| 25 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 24 treat | obj |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 respect | case |
| 27 | respect | respect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 treat | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | no perfect answer | there | sometimes property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | choose | can | a child | the least bad option | then; still; today | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent option=Theme | |||
| 3 | give | infinitive | a child not said here | honest reasons | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Theme | ||||
| 4 | treat | infinitive | a child not said here | everyone | with respect | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent everyone=Recipient with respect=Theme |
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:4.
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 ×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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