Rights, duties and community dilemmas, sentence 1

Free speech is precious, but so is not causing needless hurt: we can disagree with someone's religion without mocking what they hold holy.

Who acts: Free speech, we, rights · What happens: be, not cause, disagree, mock, hold · To what, where: needless hurt

This is a sentence of the lesson «Rights, duties and community dilemmas» 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 (Free speech, we, rights), 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	Free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 speech	amod
2	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 precious	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 precious	cop
4	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 disagree	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 disagree	cc
7	so	so	ADV	_	10 causing	advmod
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 causing	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 causing	advmod
10	causing	cause	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 disagree	advcl
11	needless	needless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 hurt	amod
12	hurt	hurt	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 causing	obj
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 causing	punct
14	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 disagree	nsubj
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 disagree	aux
16	disagree	disagree	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 precious	conj
17	with	with	ADP	_	20 religion	case
18	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	20 religion	nmod:poss
19	's	's	PART	_	18 someone	case
20	religion	religion	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 disagree	obl
21	without	without	SCONJ	_	22 mocking	mark
22	mocking	mock	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 disagree	advcl
23	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 mocking	obj
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 hold	nsubj
25	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 what	acl:relcl
26	holy	holy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 hold	xcomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 precious	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	Free speech		precious property	tree rules
2	not cause	present · progressive	we not said here	needless hurt		vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition hurt=Patient
3	disagree	can	we		with someone's religion	vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme whether S»: agent=Agent with religion=Co-Agent
4	mock	gerund	we not said here			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme
5	hold	present	rights = right		holy property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:049-rights-duties-and-community.lesson:1.

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.

See the release 0.4.

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