--- title: Consequences thinking (consequentialism) looks for the choice with t… — Three ways of thinking: rules, consequences, cha… · tree and pragmatics description: Consequences thinking (consequentialism) looks for the choice with the best results for everyone affected, but it can forget the few if it only counts the many. Who acts: choice. 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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 (choice), 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:2 # text = Consequences thinking (consequentialism) looks for the choice with the best results for everyone affected, but it can forget the few if it only counts the many. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Consequences consequence NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 compound _ _ 2 thinking think VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 nsubj _ _ 3 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 4 punct _ _ 4 consequentialism consequentialism NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:obj 5 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 4 punct _ _ 6 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 choice choice NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 13 amod _ _ 13 results result NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ _ 14 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 13 nmod _ _ 16 affected affect VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 acl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 but but CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 forget forget VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 obj _ _ 24 if if SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 26 only only ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 counts count VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 advcl _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 obj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | 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 | **look** | present | | | | | | for the choice with the best results for everyone | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for choice=Theme | | 3 | **affect** | participle | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **forget** | can | choice | the few | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **count** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | choice | the many | | | | | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Theme | 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:2`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Three ways of thinking: rules, consequ…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/37-rules-consequences-character/1/) - next →: [Three ways of thinking: rules, consequ…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/37-rules-consequences-character/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/37-rules-consequences-character/)