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title: In the lifeboat dilemma there is room for only some people, and ethi… — Lifeboat choices · tree and pragmatics
description: In the lifeboat dilemma there is room for only some people, and ethics asks which ways of choosing are fair. Who acts: room, ethics, ways. 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 6

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In the lifeboat dilemma there is room for only some people, and ethics asks which ways of choosing are fair.

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**Who acts:** room, ethics, ways · **What happens:** be, ask, choose · **To what, where:** lifeboat dilemma · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (room, ethics, ways), 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:6
# text = In the lifeboat dilemma there is room for only some people, and ethics asks which ways of choosing are fair.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	lifeboat	lifeboat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	dilemma	dilemma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	6	expl	_	_
6	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	only	only	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
11	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	ethics	ethic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
15	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
16	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	17	det	_	_
17	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
18	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	choosing	choose	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	acl	_	_
20	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	ccomp	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15: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 | **be** | present | room for some people |  |  | the lifeboat dilemma; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in dilemma=Location |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | ethics |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **choose** | gerund | which ways *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | present | which ways |  |  |  |  | fair *property* | tree rules |

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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:6`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-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/).

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