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title: Sometimes rules and consequences clash, for example lying to protect… — Three ways of thinking: rules, consequences, cha… · tree and pragmatics
description: Sometimes rules and consequences clash, for example lying to protect someone. Who acts: rules. A sentence of the lesson «Three ways of thinking: rules, consequences, character» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three ways of thinking: rules, consequences, character, sentence 13

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Sometimes rules and consequences clash, for example lying to protect someone.

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**Who acts:** rules · **What happens:** clash, lie, protect · **To what, where:** someone

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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 (rules), 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:13
# text = Sometimes rules and consequences clash, for example lying to protect someone.
# 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	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	5	advmod	_	_
2	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	consequences	consequence	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	clash	clash	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:acl
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	protect	protect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	11	obj	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **clash** | present | rules and consequences |  |  |  |  | for example; sometimes *property* | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **lie** | gerund | rules and consequences *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **protect** | to-infinitive | rules and consequences *not said here* |  | someone |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Beneficiary |

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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:13`.

**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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