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title: Sharing means letting others use or have part of what you have, and… — Sharing and fairness · tree and pragmatics
description: Sharing means letting others use or have part of what you have, and it builds friendship; but fairness asks a harder question: who should get what, and why? Who acts: others, you, part, fairness. A sentence of the lesson «Sharing and fairness» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school w
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# Sharing and fairness, sentence 0

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Sharing means letting others use or have part of what you have, and it builds friendship; but fairness asks a harder question: who should get what, and why?

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**Who acts:** others, you, part, fairness · **What happens:** share, mean, let, use, have, build · **To what, where:** others, part, friendship, harder question

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Sharing and fairness» 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 (others, you, part, fairness), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:043-sharing-and-fairness.lesson:0
# text = Sharing means letting others use or have part of what you have, and it builds friendship; but fairness asks a harder question: who should get what, and why?
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 043-sharing-and-fairness.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 ×2
1	Sharing	share	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	letting	let	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	xcomp	_	_
4	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
8	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nmod	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	builds	build	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
17	friendship	friendship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	fairness	fairness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	harder	hard	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	24	amod	_	_
24	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
26	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
27	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
29	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	28	obj	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	28	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:advmod
33	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **share** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **let** *not said to happen* | gerund |  | others |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **use** | infinitive | others *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **have** | infinitive | others *not said here* | part |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Patient |
| 6 | **have** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **build** | present | part | friendship |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material friendship=Product |
| 8 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | fairness | a harder question |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient |
| 9 | **get** | should |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |

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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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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