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description: Rules thinking says some actions are right or wrong in themselves, whatever happens; philosophers call it deontology. Who acts: thinking, actions, whatever, philosophers. 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 5

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Rules thinking says some actions are right or wrong in themselves, whatever happens; philosophers call it deontology.

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**Who acts:** thinking, actions, whatever, philosophers · **What happens:** think, say, be, happen, call · **To what, where:** child · **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 (thinking, actions, whatever, philosophers), 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:5
# text = Rules thinking says some actions are right or wrong in themselves, whatever happens; philosophers call it deontology.
# 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	3	csubj	_	_
3	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
5	actions	action	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	7	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	happens	happen	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	philosophers	philosopher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	deontology	deontology	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	xcomp	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | thinking |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | some actions |  |  |  |  | in actions *= action*; right *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | some actions *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **happen** | present | whatever |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **call** | present | philosophers | child |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient |

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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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**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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