Lifeboat choices, sentence 8
Choosing only the "most useful" people is often criticised as unfair, because every person has equal worth.
Who acts: Choosing, person · What happens: choose, criticise, have · To what, where: useful people, equal worth
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 (Choosing, person), 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 | Choosing | choose | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 criticised | csubj |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 people | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 people | det |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 useful | punct |
| 5 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 6 useful | advmod |
| 6 | useful | useful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 people | amod |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 useful | punct |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Choosing | obj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 criticised | aux:pass |
| 10 | often | often | ADV | _ | 11 criticised | advmod |
| 11 | criticised | criticise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 unfair | case |
| 13 | unfair | unfair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 criticised | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 has | punct |
| 15 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 18 has | mark |
| 16 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 person | det |
| 17 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 has | nsubj |
| 18 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 criticised | advcl |
| 19 | equal | equal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 worth | amod |
| 20 | worth | worth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 has | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 criticised | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- evaluate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed act=evaluate, polarity=neg
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose | gerund | the useful people | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme | |||||
| 2 | criticise | present · passive | Choosing | as unfair; often property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have | present | every person | equal worth | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worth=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:8.
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, 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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