Lifeboat choices, sentence 5
A dilemma is a choice in which every option has a cost.
Who acts: dilemma, option · What happens: be, have · To what, where: choice, cost
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 (dilemma, option), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 dilemma | det |
| 2 | dilemma | dilemma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 choice | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 choice | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 choice | det |
| 5 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 which | case |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 has | obl |
| 8 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 option | det |
| 9 | option | option | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 has | nsubj |
| 10 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 choice | acl:relcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 cost | det |
| 12 | cost | cost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 has | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 choice | 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 | present | a dilemma | a choice | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | present | every option | a cost | a choice | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cost=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:5.
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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