Olympiad: fair or unfair, chains of reasons and dilemmas ★★★, sentence 7

"One cuts, the other chooses" is fair because the cutter has every reason to make the two pieces equal.

Who acts: One, other, cutter · What happens: cut, choose, be, have, make · To what, where: reason, two pieces · 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 (One, other, cutter), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 cuts	punct
2	One	one	PRON	_	3 cuts	nsubj
3	cuts	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 fair	csubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 chooses	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 other	det
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 chooses	nsubj
7	chooses	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 cuts	parataxis
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 chooses	punct
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 fair	cop
10	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	because	because	SCONJ	_	14 has	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 cutter	det
13	cutter	cutter	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 has	nsubj
14	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 fair	advcl
15	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	16 reason	det
16	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 has	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 make	mark
18	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 reason	acl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 pieces	det
20	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 pieces	nummod
21	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 make	obj
22	equal	equal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 make	xcomp
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 fair	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cut in a quote	present	One			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	choose in a quote	present	the other			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is	present			fair property	tree rules
4	have	present	the cutter	every reason		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Patient
5	make	to-infinitive	the cutter not said here	the two pieces	equal property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset piece=Product

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:7.

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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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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