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title: When the three disagree, a thinker has to weigh the reasons on each… — Three ways of thinking: rules, consequences, cha… · tree and pragmatics
description: When the three disagree, a thinker has to weigh the reasons on each side; there is no simple formula. Who acts: three, thinker, simple formula. 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
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# Three ways of thinking: rules, consequences, character, sentence 14

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When the three disagree, a thinker has to weigh the reasons on each side; there is no simple formula.

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**Who acts:** three, thinker, simple formula · **What happens:** disagree, have, weigh, be · **To what, where:** reasons, side

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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 (three, thinker, simple formula), 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:14
# text = When the three disagree, a thinker has to weigh the reasons on each side; there is no simple formula.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:det
3	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nsubj	_	_
4	disagree	disagree	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	thinker	thinker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	weigh	weigh	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	reasons	reason	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=8:punct
17	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	18	expl	_	_
18	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj
19	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	21	det	_	_
20	simple	simple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	formula	formula	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **disagree** | present | the three |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **have** | present | a thinker |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **weigh** | to-infinitive | a thinker *not said here* | the reasons |  | each side |  |  | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme reason=Value |
| 4 | **be** | present | no simple formula |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:14`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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.

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

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