--- title: Fair procedures for sharing something scarce include drawing lots (p… — Lifeboat choices · tree and pragmatics description: Fair procedures for sharing something scarce include drawing lots (picking names out of a hat), a waiting list and helping those in greatest need. Who acts: Fair procedures. A sentence of the lesson «Lifeboat choices» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree an --- [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/7/) [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/) / 7 # Lifeboat choices, sentence 7 Fair procedures for sharing something scarce include drawing lots (picking names out of a hat), a waiting list and helping those in greatest need. **Who acts:** Fair procedures · **What happens:** share, include, draw, pick, help · **To what, where:** something, drawing lots, those, greatest need 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 (Fair procedures), 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:7 # text = Fair procedures for sharing something scarce include drawing lots (picking names out of a hat), a waiting list and helping those in greatest need. # 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 procedures procedure NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 3 for for SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 4 sharing share VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 acl _ _ 5 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 4 obj _ _ 6 scarce scarce ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 7 include include VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 drawing draw VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 amod _ _ 9 lots lot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 10 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct 11 picking pick VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 amod _ _ 12 names name NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 appos _ _ 13 out out ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 hat hat NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 17 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 12 punct _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 waiting waiting NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 list list NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 helping help VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 conj _ _ 24 those that PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 23 obj _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 greatest great ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 27 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=27:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 27 need need NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **share** | gerund | Fair procedures *not said here* | something | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **include** | present | Fair procedures | drawing lots and a waiting list | | | | | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Theme | | 3 | **draw** | gerund | | | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **pick** | gerund | | | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **help** | gerund | Fair procedures *not said here* | those | | greatest need | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Beneficiary | 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:7`. **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 ×1, 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/). - ← previous: [Lifeboat choices, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/48-lifeboat-choices/6/) - next →: [Lifeboat choices, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/48-lifeboat-choices/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/48-lifeboat-choices/)