Lifeboat choices, sentence 9

The trolley problem pictures a runaway tram (a trolley) heading for five people, and a lever that would switch it onto a track where it would hit one; it asks whether it is right to let one person be harmed to save five; people still disagree about it.

Who acts: trolley problem, runaway tram, lever, problem, one person, people · What happens: picture, heading, switch, hit, ask, be · To what, where: runaway tram, problem, track, one, one person, five · 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 (trolley problem, runaway tram, lever, problem), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 problem	det
2	trolley	trolley	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 problem	compound
3	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pictures	nsubj
4	pictures	picture	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 tram	det
6	runaway	runaway	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tram	amod
7	tram	tram	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pictures	obj
8	(	(	PUNCT	_	12 heading	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 trolley	det
10	trolley	trolley	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 heading	compound
11	)	)	PUNCT	_	10 trolley	punct
12	heading	heading	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 tram	acl
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 people	case
14	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 people	nummod
15	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 heading	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 lever	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 lever	cc
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 lever	det
19	lever	lever	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tram	conj
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 switch	nsubj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 switch	aux
22	switch	switch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 lever	acl:relcl
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 switch	obj
24	onto	onto	ADP	_	26 track	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 track	det
26	track	track	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 switch	obl
27	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	30 hit	advmod
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 hit	nsubj
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 hit	aux
30	hit	hit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 track	acl:relcl
31	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 hit	obj
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 asks	punct
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 asks	nsubj
34	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 pictures	parataxis
35	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	38 right	mark
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 right	expl
37	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 right	cop
38	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 asks	ccomp
39	to	to	PART	_	40 let	mark
40	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 right	csubj
41	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	42 person	nummod
42	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 let	obj
43	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	44 harmed	aux:pass
44	harmed	harm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	40 let	xcomp
45	to	to	PART	_	46 save	mark
46	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 harmed	advcl
47	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	46 save	obj
48	;	;	PUNCT	_	51 disagree	punct
49	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 disagree	nsubj
50	still	still	ADV	_	51 disagree	advmod
51	disagree	disagree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 pictures	parataxis
52	about	about	ADP	_	53 it	case
53	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 disagree	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 pictures	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	picture	present	the trolley problem	a runaway tram and a lever				vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent tram=Theme
2	heading	gerund	a runaway tram and a lever not said here				for five people	tree rules
3	switch	would	a lever	problem	a track			vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	hit	would	problem	one				vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme one=Co-Theme
5	ask speech: ask	present	problem					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is	present					right property	tree rules
7	let	to-infinitive		one person				tree rules
8	harm	infinitive · passive	one person not said here					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»
9	save	to-infinitive	one person not said here	five				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent five=Theme
10	disagree	present	people			still	about person	vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about it=Topic

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:9.

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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×6. 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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