--- title: Many people think there is a difference between doing harm and allow… — Lifeboat choices · tree and pragmatics description: Many people think there is a difference between doing harm and allowing harm, though this is disputed. Who acts: Many people, difference. 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. --- [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/11/) [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/) / 11 # Lifeboat choices, sentence 11 Many people think there is a difference between doing harm and allowing harm, though this is disputed. **Who acts:** Many people, difference · **What happens:** think, be, do, allow, dispute · **To what, where:** harm, this · **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 (Many people, difference), 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:11 # text = Many people think there is a difference between doing harm and allowing harm, though this is disputed. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 5 expl _ _ 5 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 difference difference NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 8 between between SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 9 doing do VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 acl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:nmod 10 harm harm NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 allowing allow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 conj _ _ 13 harm harm NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 though though SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 16 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 18 nsubj:pass _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux:pass _ _ 18 disputed dispute VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 advcl _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present | Many people | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **be** | present | a difference | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **do** | gerund | a difference *not said here* | harm | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=Eventuality | | 4 | **allow** | gerund | a difference *not said here* | harm | | | | | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=Beneficiary | | 5 | **dispute** | present · passive | | this | | | | | tree rules | 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:11`. **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: [Lifeboat choices, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/48-lifeboat-choices/10/) - next →: [Lifeboat choices, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/48-lifeboat-choices/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/48-lifeboat-choices/)