Rights, duties and community dilemmas, sentence 10
Majority rule must still protect the rights of the minority; the majority is not always right.
Who acts: Majority rule, majority · What happens: protect, not be · To what, where: rights
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 (Majority rule, majority), 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 | Majority | majority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rule | compound |
| 2 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 protect | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 protect | aux |
| 4 | still | still | ADV | _ | 5 protect | advmod |
| 5 | protect | protect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 rights | det |
| 7 | rights | right | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 protect | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 minority | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 minority | det |
| 10 | minority | minority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rights | nmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 right | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 majority | det |
| 13 | majority | majority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 right | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 right | cop |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 right | advmod |
| 16 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 17 right | advmod |
| 17 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 protect | parataxis |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 protect | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | protect | must | Majority rule | the rights of the minority | still | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | not is | present | the majority | always, right 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:049-rights-duties-and-community.lesson:10.
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): 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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