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title: There are three main ideas of fairness: equal shares, shares by need… — Sharing and fairness · tree and pragmatics
description: There are three main ideas of fairness: equal shares, shares by need, and shares by effort; people disagree about which fits best (disputed). Who acts: three main ideas, people, need, effort. A sentence of the lesson «Sharing and fairness» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with 
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# Sharing and fairness, sentence 9

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There are three main ideas of fairness: equal shares, shares by need, and shares by effort; people disagree about which fits best (disputed).

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**Who acts:** three main ideas, people, need, effort · **What happens:** be, disagree, fit, dispute, share

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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 (three main ideas, people, need, effort), 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:9
# text = There are three main ideas of fairness: equal shares, shares by need, and shares by effort; people disagree about which fits best (disputed).
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
4	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	ideas	idea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	fairness	fairness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	equal	equal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	shares	share	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	shares	share	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	need	need	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	shares	share	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	effort	effort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
21	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	disagree	disagree	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
23	about	about	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	obl	_	_
25	fits	fit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
26	best	well	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	25	advmod	_	_
27	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	28	punct	_	_
28	disputed	dispute	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	parataxis	_	_
29	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	28	punct	_	_
30	.	.	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 | **does** | present | three main ideas of fairness |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **disagree** | present | people |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about which=Topic |
| 3 | **fit** | present |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **dispute** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **share** |  | need |  |  |  |  |  | nom share «possession transitive»: by=agent |
| 6 | **share** |  | effort |  |  |  |  |  | nom share «possession transitive»: by=agent |

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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, 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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