--- title: Ethics asks not only "what should we choose?" but "how should we cho… — Lifeboat choices · tree and pragmatics description: Ethics asks not only "what should we choose?" but "how should we choose?": a fair way, such as drawing lots, a waiting list or helping the one in greatest need, can be better than picking favourites. Who acts: Ethics, we, fair way. A sentence of the lesson «Lifeboat choices» of the religion ethics c --- [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/1/) [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/) / 1 # Lifeboat choices, sentence 1 Ethics asks not only "what should we choose?" but "how should we choose?": a fair way, such as drawing lots, a waiting list or helping the one in greatest need, can be better than picking favourites. **Who acts:** Ethics, we, fair way · **What happens:** ask, not choose, choose, draw, help, be · **To what, where:** one, greatest need, favourites · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Ethics, we, fair way), 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:1 # text = Ethics asks not only "what should we choose?" but "how should we choose?": a fair way, such as drawing lots, a waiting list or helping the one in greatest need, can be better than picking favourites. # 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Ethics ethic NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 2 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 4 only only ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 6 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 9 obj _ _ 7 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 8 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 choose choose VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 ccomp _ _ 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct 12 but but CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 14 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 17 advmod _ _ 15 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 choose choose VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 18 ? ? PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct 19 " " PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct 20 : : PUNCT : _ 43 punct _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 28 case _ _ 26 as as ADP IN _ 25 fixed _ _ 27 drawing draw VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 28 amod _ _ 28 lots lot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 waiting waiting NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 list list NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 appos _ _ 33 or or CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 helping help VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 32 conj _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 37 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 greatest great ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 39 amod _ _ 39 need need NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=34:obl 40 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 41 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 42 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 43 cop _ _ 43 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 2 parataxis _ _ 44 than than SCONJ IN _ 45 mark _ _ 45 picking pick VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 43 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=43:acl 46 favourites favourite NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 obj _ _ 47 . . PUNCT . _ 43 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | Ethics | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **not** **choose** *in a quote* | should | we | | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme | | 3 | **choose** *in a quote* | should | we | | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **draw** | gerund | | | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **help** | gerund | a fair way and drawing lots *not said here* | the one | | greatest need | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Beneficiary | | 6 | **is** | can | a fair way and drawing lots | | | | | good *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **pick** | gerund | a fair way and drawing lots *not said here* | favourites | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent favourite=Patient | 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:1`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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: [Lifeboat choices, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/48-lifeboat-choices/0/) - next →: [Lifeboat choices, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/48-lifeboat-choices/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/48-lifeboat-choices/)