--- title: Sometimes there is no perfect answer; then a child today can still c… — Lifeboat choices · tree and pragmatics description: Sometimes there is no perfect answer; then a child today can still choose the least bad option, give honest reasons and treat everyone with respect. Who acts: perfect answer, child. A sentence of the lesson «Lifeboat choices» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency --- [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/4/) [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/) / 4 # Lifeboat choices, sentence 4 Sometimes there is no perfect answer; then a child today can still choose the least bad option, give honest reasons and treat everyone with respect. **Who acts:** perfect answer, child · **What happens:** be, choose, give, treat · **To what, where:** least bad option, honest reasons, everyone 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 (perfect answer, child), 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:4 # text = Sometimes there is no perfect answer; then a child today can still choose the least bad option, give honest reasons and treat everyone with respect. # 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 ×1 1 Sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 3 advmod _ _ 2 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 3 expl _ _ 3 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 6 det _ _ 5 perfect perfect ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 7 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 8 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 14 advmod _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:obl 11 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl:unmarked _ _ 12 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 still still ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 choose choose VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 16 least least ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 18 amod _ _ 17 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 option option NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 21 honest honest ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 reasons reason NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 treat treat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 25 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 24 obj _ _ 26 with with ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 respect respect NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 28 . . 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 | **be** | present | no perfect answer | | | there | | sometimes *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **choose** | can | a child | the least bad option | | | then; still; today | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent option=Theme | | 3 | **give** | infinitive | a child *not said here* | honest reasons | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Theme | | 4 | **treat** | infinitive | a child *not said here* | | everyone | | | with respect | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent everyone=Recipient with respect=Theme | 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:4`. **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 ×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/). - ← previous: [Lifeboat choices, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/48-lifeboat-choices/3/) - next →: [Lifeboat choices, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/48-lifeboat-choices/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/48-lifeboat-choices/)