--- title: Thinkers have found three big ways to ask what is right: rules think… — Three ways of thinking: rules, consequences, cha… · tree and pragmatics description: Thinkers have found three big ways to ask what is right: rules thinking asks "what is my duty?", consequences thinking asks "what will happen to everyone?", and character thinking asks "what would a good person do?" Who acts: Thinkers, rules thinking, consequences thinking, character thinking. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Thinkers, rules thinking, consequences thinking, character thinking), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:037-rules-consequences-character.lesson:0 # text = Thinkers have found three big ways to ask what is right: rules thinking asks "what is my duty?", consequences thinking asks "what will happen to everyone?", and character thinking asks "what would a good person do?" # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 037-rules-consequences-character.lesson # annotation = 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Thinkers thinker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 4 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 5 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 ways way NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 acl _ _ 9 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 11 nsubj _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 11 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 ccomp _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 13 rules rule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 compound _ _ 14 thinking think NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 16 " " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 17 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 20 nsubj _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 19 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 duty duty NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 ccomp _ _ 21 ? ? PUNCT . _ 20 punct _ _ 22 " " PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 consequences consequence NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 compound _ _ 25 thinking think NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 27 " " PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ _ 28 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 30 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:obj 29 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 happen happen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:conj 31 to to ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 30 obl _ _ 33 ? ? PUNCT . _ 32 punct _ _ 34 " " PUNCT '' _ 30 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=32:punct 35 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 37 character character NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 thinking think NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 39 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 40 " " PUNCT `` _ 46 punct _ _ 41 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 46 obj _ _ 42 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 46 aux _ _ 43 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 44 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 nsubj _ _ 46 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 39 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=39:conj 47 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 48 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **find** | present · perfect | Thinkers | three big ways | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive | Thinkers *not said here* | three big ways *not said here* | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | present | | | | | | right *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | rules thinking | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | | my duty | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | consequences thinking | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **happen** *in a quote* | future | | | | | | to everyone | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | character thinking | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 9 | **do** *in a quote* | would | a good person | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:037-rules-consequences-character.lesson:0`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [What is an ethics olympiad?, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/36-what-is-an-ethics-olympiad/16/) - next →: [Three ways of thinking: rules, consequ…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/37-rules-consequences-character/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/37-rules-consequences-character/)