--- title: A dilemma is a hard choice where every option costs something: a lif… — Lifeboat choices · tree and pragmatics description: A dilemma is a hard choice where every option costs something: a lifeboat with room for only some people, one dose of medicine and two sick people, one place left on the school trip. Who acts: dilemma, option. A sentence of the lesson «Lifeboat choices» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primar --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/48-lifeboat-choices/0/) [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/) / [Lifeboat choices](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/48-lifeboat-choices/) / 0 # Lifeboat choices, sentence 0 A dilemma is a hard choice where every option costs something: a lifeboat with room for only some people, one dose of medicine and two sick people, one place left on the school trip. **Who acts:** dilemma, option · **What happens:** be, cost, leave · **To what, where:** hard choice, something, one place, school trip This is a sentence of the lesson «Lifeboat choices» 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 (dilemma, option), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:048-lifeboat-choices.lesson:0 # text = A dilemma is a hard choice where every option costs something: a lifeboat with room for only some people, one dose of medicine and two sick people, one place left on the school trip. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 048-lifeboat-choices.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 ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 dilemma dilemma NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 choice choice NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 10 advmod _ _ 8 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 9 det _ _ 9 option option NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 costs cost VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 11 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 10 obj _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 lifeboat lifeboat NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 appos _ _ 15 with with ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 17 for for ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 only only ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 19 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 20 det _ _ 20 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:nmod 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 23 dose dose NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 medicine medicine NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 27 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 29 nummod _ _ 28 sick sick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 32 nummod _ _ 32 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:conj 33 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 32 acl _ _ 34 on on ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 trip trip NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a dilemma | a hard choice | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **cost** | present | every option | something | | | | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme something=Value | | 3 | **leave** | participle | | one place *not said here* | | the school trip | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on trip=Location | 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:048-lifeboat-choices.lesson:0`. **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 ×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, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/47-the-environment/17/) - next →: [Lifeboat choices, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/48-lifeboat-choices/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/48-lifeboat-choices/)