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title: Self-sacrifice is admired, but it is usually seen as going beyond du… — Lifeboat choices · tree and pragmatics
description: Self-sacrifice is admired, but it is usually seen as going beyond duty, not something everyone is required to do. 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 16

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Self-sacrifice is admired, but it is usually seen as going beyond duty, not something everyone is required to do.

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**What happens:** admire, see, go, require, do · **To what, where:** Self sacrifice, sacrifice, duty, everyone

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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: 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:16
# text = Self-sacrifice is admired, but it is usually seen as going beyond duty, not something everyone is required to do.
# 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
1	Self	self	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	_
3	sacrifice	sacrifice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	admired	admire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
10	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
14	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	duty	duty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:advmod
18	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	19	compound	_	_
19	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	21	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	required	require	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **admire** | present · passive |  | Self sacrifice |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **see** | present · passive |  | sacrifice |  |  |  | usually *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 3 | **go** | gerund |  |  |  | duty |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme beyond duty=Location |
| 4 | **require** | present · passive |  | everyone |  |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **do** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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**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. **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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