--- title: "The greatest good for the greatest number" is a consequences idea;… — Three ways of thinking: rules, consequences, cha… · tree and pragmatics description: "The greatest good for the greatest number" is a consequences idea; it can help, but it can forget the few. Who acts: greatest good, idea. 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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 (greatest good, idea), 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:9 # text = "The greatest good for the greatest number" is a consequences idea; it can help, but it can forget the few. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 2 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 greatest great ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 4 amod _ _ 4 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 nsubj _ _ 5 for for ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 greatest great ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 8 amod _ _ 8 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 9 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 consequences consequence NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 compound _ _ 13 idea idea NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 16 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:conj 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 but but CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 forget forget VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:conj 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 obj _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: evaluate - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: changed act=evaluate | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the greatest good | a consequences idea | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **help** | can | idea | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **forget** | can | idea | the few | | | | | tree rules | 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:9`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×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/). - ← previous: [Three ways of thinking: rules, consequ…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/37-rules-consequences-character/8/) - next →: [Three ways of thinking: rules, consequ…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/37-rules-consequences-character/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/37-rules-consequences-character/)