Olympiad practice: the hardest cases, sentence 3
Others are truly open, like owning up to a foul after a cup final, and the best answer says "it depends", names what matters on each side and explains which way it leans and why.
Who acts: Others, best answer, it, way, answer · What happens: be, own up, say, depend, name, matter · To what, where: 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 (Others, best answer, it, way), 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 | Others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 open | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 open | cop |
| 3 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 4 open | advmod |
| 4 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 owning | punct |
| 6 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 7 owning | mark |
| 7 | owning | own | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 open | advcl |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 owning | compound:prt |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 foul | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 foul | det |
| 11 | foul | foul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 owning | obl |
| 12 | after | after | ADP | _ | 15 final | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 final | det |
| 14 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 final | compound |
| 15 | final | final | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 owning | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 says | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 says | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 answer | det |
| 19 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 20 answer | amod |
| 20 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 says | nsubj |
| 21 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 open | conj |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 depends | punct |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 depends | nsubj |
| 24 | depends | depend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 says | ccomp |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 depends | punct |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 names | punct |
| 27 | names | name | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 says | conj |
| 28 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 matters | nsubj |
| 29 | matters | matter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 names | ccomp |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 side | case |
| 31 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 side | det |
| 32 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 matters | obl |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 explains | cc |
| 34 | explains | explain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 says | conj |
| 35 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 36 way | det |
| 36 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 explains | obj |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 leans | nsubj |
| 38 | leans | lean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 explains | ccomp |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 why | cc |
| 40 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 38 leans | conj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 open | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Others | open, truly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | own up | gerund | Others not said here | after a cup final | to a foul | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | the best answer | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | depend in a quote | present | it | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | name | present | the best answer not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | matter | present | each side | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | explain speech: assert | present | which way | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 8 | lean | present | answer | 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:3.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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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