--- title: Some questions are hard, like who should pay to fix the damage; a go… — The environment · tree and pragmatics description: Some questions are hard, like who should pay to fix the damage; a good answer weighs fairness, who caused the harm and who is able to help. Who acts: questions, good answer, fairness. A sentence of the lesson «The environment» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependenc --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/47-the-environment/3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/) / [The environment](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/47-the-environment/) / 3 # The environment, sentence 3 Some questions are hard, like who should pay to fix the damage; a good answer weighs fairness, who caused the harm and who is able to help. **Who acts:** questions, good answer, fairness · **What happens:** be, pay, fix, weigh, cause, help · **To what, where:** damage, fairness, harm 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 (questions, good answer, fairness), 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:3 # text = Some questions are hard, like who should pay to fix the damage; a good answer weighs fairness, who caused the harm and who is able to help. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 questions question NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 6 like like SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 7 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 8 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 pay pay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 fix fix VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 advcl _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 damage damage NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 weighs weigh VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 19 fairness fairness NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 22 nsubj _ _ 22 caused cause VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 acl:relcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:parataxis 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 harm harm NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 28 able able ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 conj _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | some questions | | | | | hard *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **pay** | should | | | | | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **fix** | to-infinitive | | the damage | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent damage=Patient | | 4 | **weigh** | present | a good answer | fairness | | | | | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme fairness=Value | | 5 | **cause** | past | fairness | the harm | | | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition harm=Patient | | 6 | **is** | present | | | | | | able *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **help** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: 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:047-the-environment.lesson:3`. **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/). - ← previous: [The environment, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/47-the-environment/2/) - next →: [The environment, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/47-the-environment/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/47-the-environment/)