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title: Rules thinking and consequences thinking often give different answer… — Lifeboat choices · tree and pragmatics
description: Rules thinking and consequences thinking often give different answers to the trolley problem. Who acts: consequences. A sentence of the lesson «Lifeboat choices» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Lifeboat choices, sentence 10

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Rules thinking and consequences thinking often give different answers to the trolley problem.

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**Who acts:** consequences · **What happens:** think, give · **To what, where:** different answers, trolley problem

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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 (consequences), 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:10
# text = Rules thinking and consequences thinking often give different answers to the trolley problem.
# 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): no change
1	Rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	compound	_	_
2	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	consequences	consequence	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
6	often	often	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	answers	answer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	trolley	trolley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	problem	problem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | consequences |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **give** | present |  | different answers | the trolley problem |  |  | often *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent answer=Theme to problem=Recipient |

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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:048-lifeboat-choices.lesson:10`.

**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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