Olympiad: fair or unfair, chains of reasons and dilemmas ★★★, sentence 1

Think of a chain of reasons: "It's fair because it's the rule", "Why is the rule fair?", "Because the head said so", "Why?"; a good answer still stands after two or three "why?"s, and a chain is only as strong as its weakest link.

Who acts: you, fair, rule, head, good answer, chain · What happens: think, be, say, stand · To what, where: rule · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: fair or unfair, chains of reasons and dilemmas ★★★» 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 (you, fair, rule, head), 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	Think	think	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 chain	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 chain	det
4	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Think	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 reasons	case
6	reasons	reason	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 chain	nmod
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 fair	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 fair	punct
9	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 fair	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 fair	cop
11	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Think	parataxis
12	because	because	SCONJ	_	16 rule	mark
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 rule	nsubj
14	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 rule	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 rule	det
16	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fair	advcl
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 rule	punct
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Think	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 fair	punct
20	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	24 fair	advmod
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 fair	cop
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 rule	det
23	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 fair	nsubj
24	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Think	parataxis
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	24 fair	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 fair	punct
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Think	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 said	punct
29	Because	because	SCONJ	_	32 said	mark
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 head	det
31	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 said	nsubj
32	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Think	advcl
33	so	so	ADV	_	32 said	advmod
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 said	punct
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 Why	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	37 Why	punct
37	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	32 said	ccomp
38	?	?	PUNCT	_	37 Why	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	37 Why	punct
40	;	;	PUNCT	_	45 stands	punct
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 answer	det
42	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 answer	amod
43	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 stands	nsubj
44	still	still	ADV	_	45 stands	advmod
45	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Think	parataxis
46	after	after	ADP	_	47 two	case
47	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	45 stands	obl
48	or	or	CCONJ	_	49 three	cc
49	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	47 two	conj
50	"	"	PUNCT	_	51 why	punct
51	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	45 stands	advmod
52	?	?	PUNCT	_	51 why	punct
53	"	"	PUNCT	_	51 why	punct
54	s	's	PART	Typo=Yes	45 stands	case
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 strong	punct
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	62 strong	cc
57	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	58 chain	det
58	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 strong	nsubj
59	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	62 strong	cop
60	only	only	ADV	_	62 strong	advmod
61	as	as	ADV	_	62 strong	advmod
62	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 stands	conj
63	as	as	ADP	_	66 link	case
64	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	66 link	nmod:poss
65	weakest	weak	ADJ	Degree=Sup	66 link	amod
66	link	link	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 strong	obl
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Think	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	imperative	you not said here			of a chain of reasons	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	is in a quote	present	fair			fair property	tree rules
3	is a in a quote	present	fair	the rule			tree rules
4	is in a quote	present	the rule			fair property	tree rules
5	say speech: assert in a quote	past	the head				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	stand	present	a good answer		after two; still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is	present	a chain			as fair's weakest link; strong property	tree rules

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:103-olympiad-fair-or-unfair-chains-of-reasons-and-dilemmas.lesson:1.

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 ×8, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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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