Olympiad practice: the hardest cases, sentence 9

A promise cannot bind you to stand by while someone comes to harm; keeping someone safe outweighs a promise.

Who acts: promise, someone, keeping · What happens: not bind, stand by, come, harm, keep, outweigh · To what, where: you, someone, promise

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 (promise, someone, keeping), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 promise	det
2	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bind	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 bind	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 bind	advmod
5	bind	bind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 bind	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 stand	mark
8	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 bind	xcomp
9	by	by	ADP	_	8 stand	obl
10	while	while	SCONJ	_	12 comes	mark
11	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	12 comes	nsubj
12	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 stand	advcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 harm	mark
14	harm	harm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 comes	xcomp
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 outweighs	punct
16	keeping	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 outweighs	csubj
17	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	16 keeping	obj
18	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 keeping	xcomp
19	outweighs	outweigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 bind	parataxis
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 promise	det
21	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 outweighs	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 bind	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not bind	can	a promise	you		tree rules
2	stand by	to-infinitive	a promise not said here			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	come	present	someone			tree rules
4	harm	to-infinitive	someone not said here			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	keep	gerund		someone	safe property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Theme
6	outweigh	present	keeping	a promise		vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot promise=Theme

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:9.

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 ×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.

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