Dilemmas about truth and friendship, sentence 10

The "murderer at the door" is a famous puzzle: should you lie to someone who wants to harm your friend hiding inside?

Who acts: murderer, you, friend · What happens: be, lie, want, harm, hiding · To what, where: famous puzzle, friend

This is a sentence of the lesson «Dilemmas about truth and friendship» 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 (murderer, you, friend), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 murderer	det
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 murderer	punct
3	murderer	murderer	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 puzzle	nsubj
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 door	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 door	det
6	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 murderer	nmod
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 murderer	punct
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 puzzle	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 puzzle	det
10	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 puzzle	amod
11	puzzle	puzzle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 lie	punct
13	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 lie	aux
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 lie	nsubj
15	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 puzzle	parataxis
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 someone	case
17	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	15 lie	obl
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 wants	nsubj
19	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 someone	acl:relcl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 harm	mark
21	harm	harm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 wants	xcomp
22	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 friend	nmod:poss
23	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 harm	obj
24	hiding	hiding	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 friend	acl
25	inside	inside	ADV	_	24 hiding	advmod
26	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 puzzle	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the murderer at the door	a famous puzzle		tree rules
2	lie	should	you		to someone	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	want	present				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	harm not said to happen	to-infinitive		your friend		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus friend=Experiencer
5	hiding	gerund	your friend not said here		inside 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:041-dilemmas-about-truth-and-friendship.lesson:10.

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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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