--- title: People disagree whether giving to charity is a kindness you choose o… — Sharing and fairness · tree and pragmatics description: People disagree whether giving to charity is a kindness you choose or a duty you owe (disputed); many Christians say it is both. Who acts: People, giving, you, many Christians. 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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 (People, giving, you, many Christians), 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:18 # text = People disagree whether giving to charity is a kindness you choose or a duty you owe (disputed); many Christians say it is both. # 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 People people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 disagree disagree VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 4 giving give VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 csubj _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 charity charity NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 kindness kindness NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 ccomp _ _ 10 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 choose choose VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ _ 12 or or CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 duty duty NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 owe owe VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 17 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 18 punct _ _ 18 disputed dispute VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 parataxis _ _ 19 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 18 punct _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 Christians Christian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 26 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 23 ccomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:ccomp|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **disagree** | present | People | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **give** | gerund | | | charity | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to charity=Recipient | | 3 | **is a** | present | giving | a kindness or a duty | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **choose** | present | you | a kindness or a duty *not said here* | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kindness=Theme | | 5 | **owe** | present | you | a duty *not said here* | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent duty=Theme | | 6 | **dispute** | participle | | | | | | | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | many Christians | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | 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:043-sharing-and-fairness.lesson:18`. **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, R8-pos-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: [Sharing and fairness, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/43-sharing-and-fairness/17/) - next →: [Cheating, rules and games, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/44-cheating-rules-and-games/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/43-sharing-and-fairness/)