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title: Future generations are the people who will live after us; fairness i… — The environment · tree and pragmatics
description: Future generations are the people who will live after us; fairness includes not using up what they will need. Who acts: Future generations, people, fairness, generations. A sentence of the lesson «The environment» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and th
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# The environment, sentence 12

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Future generations are the people who will live after us; fairness includes not using up what they will need.

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**Who acts:** Future generations, people, fairness, generations · **What happens:** be, live, include, not use up, need · **To what, where:** people

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The environment» 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 (Future generations, people, fairness, generations), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:047-the-environment.lesson:12
# text = Future generations are the people who will live after us; fairness includes not using up what they will need.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 047-the-environment.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): no change
1	Future	future	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	generations	generation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
7	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	after	after	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	fairness	fairness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	includes	include	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	using	use	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	xcomp	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	20	obj	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	need	need	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	ccomp	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Future generations | the people |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **live** | future | the people |  |  |  | after us |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **include** | present | fairness |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **use up** | gerund | fairness *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **need** | future | generations *= generation* |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |

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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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**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:047-the-environment.lesson:12`.

**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): no change. **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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