--- title: Saying no to organ donation is a personal choice that is respected. — Gifts of life: organ donation and giving blood · tree and pragmatics description: Saying no to organ donation is a personal choice that is respected. Who acts: Saying. A sentence of the lesson «Gifts of life: organ donation and giving blood» 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/78-gifts-of-life-organ-donation-and-giving-blood/12/) [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/) / [Gifts of life: organ donation and givi…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/78-gifts-of-life-organ-donation-and-giving-blood/) / 12 # Gifts of life: organ donation and giving blood, sentence 12 Saying no to organ donation is a personal choice that is respected. **Who acts:** Saying · **What happens:** say, be, respect · **To what, where:** no, organ donation, personal choice · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Gifts of life: organ donation and giving blood» 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 (Saying), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:078-gifts-of-life-organ-donation-and-giving-blood.lesson:12 # text = Saying no to organ donation is a personal choice that is respected. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 078-gifts-of-life-organ-donation-and-giving-blood.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): no change 1 Saying say VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 csubj _ _ 2 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 1 obj _ _ 3 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 organ organ NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 donation donation NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 personal personal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 choice choice NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 10 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 12 nsubj:pass _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux:pass _ _ 12 respected respect VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 acl:relcl _ _ 13 . . PUNCT . _ 9 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 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | | no | organ donation | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent no=Topic to donation=Recipient | | 2 | **is a** | present | Saying | a personal choice | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **respect** | present · passive | | a personal choice | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | 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:078-gifts-of-life-organ-donation-and-giving-blood.lesson:12`. **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): no change. **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: [Gifts of life: organ donation and givi…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/78-gifts-of-life-organ-donation-and-giving-blood/11/) - next →: [Gifts of life: organ donation and givi…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/78-gifts-of-life-organ-donation-and-giving-blood/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/78-gifts-of-life-organ-donation-and-giving-blood/)