Lifeboat choices, sentence 6
In the lifeboat dilemma there is room for only some people, and ethics asks which ways of choosing are fair.
Who acts: room, ethics, ways · What happens: be, ask, choose · To what, where: lifeboat dilemma · 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 (room, ethics, ways), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 dilemma | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 dilemma | det |
| 3 | lifeboat | lifeboat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dilemma | compound |
| 4 | dilemma | dilemma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 is | obl |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 is | expl |
| 6 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 is | nsubj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 people | case |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 11 people | advmod |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 people | det |
| 11 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 room | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 asks | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 asks | cc |
| 14 | ethics | ethic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 asks | nsubj |
| 15 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 is | conj |
| 16 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 17 ways | det |
| 17 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 fair | nsubj |
| 18 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 19 choosing | mark |
| 19 | choosing | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 ways | acl |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 fair | cop |
| 21 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 asks | ccomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 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 | room for some people | the lifeboat dilemma; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in dilemma=Location | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | present | ethics | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | choose | gerund | which ways not said here | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | present | which ways | 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:6.
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): R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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