Olympiad practice: the hardest cases, sentence 17

In an open case the best answer says "it depends", names what matters on each side, and explains which way it leans and why.

Who acts: best answer, it, way, side · What happens: say, depend, name, matter, explain, lean · To what, where: open case, side · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad practice: the hardest cases» 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 (best answer, it, way, side), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	4 case	case
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 case	det
3	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 case	amod
4	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 says	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 answer	det
6	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 answer	amod
7	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 says	nsubj
8	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 depends	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 depends	nsubj
11	depends	depend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 says	ccomp
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 depends	punct
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 names	punct
14	names	name	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 says	conj
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 matters	nsubj
16	matters	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 names	ccomp
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 side	case
18	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	19 side	det
19	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 matters	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 explains	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 explains	cc
22	explains	explain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 says	conj
23	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	24 way	det
24	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 explains	obj
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 leans	nsubj
26	leans	lean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 explains	ccomp
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 why	cc
28	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	26 leans	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 says	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the best answer	a open case	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	depend in a quote	present	it		vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	name	present	the best answer not said here		tree rules
4	matter	present		each side	vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
5	explain speech: assert	present	which way		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	lean	present	side		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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, 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:100-olympiad-practice-the-hardest-cases.lesson:17.

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 ×2. 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.

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