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title: Rules thinking (deontology) says some things, like keeping promises… — Three ways of thinking: rules, consequences, cha… · tree and pragmatics
description: Rules thinking (deontology) says some things, like keeping promises and not lying, are right or wrong in themselves, even when nobody finds out. Who acts: things, nobody. A sentence of the lesson «Three ways of thinking: rules, consequences, character» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary
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# Three ways of thinking: rules, consequences, character, sentence 1

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Rules thinking (deontology) says some things, like keeping promises and not lying, are right or wrong in themselves, even when nobody finds out.

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**Who acts:** things, nobody · **What happens:** think, say, keep, not lie, be, find out · **To what, where:** promises · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Three ways of thinking: rules, consequences, character» 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 (things, nobody), 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:1
# text = Rules thinking (deontology) says some things, like keeping promises and not lying, are right or wrong in themselves, even when nobody finds out.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	Rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	compound	_	_
2	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	nsubj	_	_
3	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	4	punct	_	_
4	deontology	deontology	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
5	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	4	punct	_	_
6	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
8	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
12	promises	promise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
17	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	ccomp	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	18	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	even	even	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
25	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	27	mark	_	_
26	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	27	nsubj	_	_
27	finds	find	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
28	out	out	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **keep** | gerund | some things *not said here* | promises |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **lie** | gerund | some things *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | present | some things |  |  |  |  | in things *= thing*; right *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** |  | some things *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **find out** | present | nobody |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**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: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): R5-strong ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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