Dilemmas about truth and friendship, sentence 3
A good answer to a dilemma does not just say "because"; it gives reasons, looks at who could be hurt, weighs the other side and treats every person with respect.
Who acts: good answer, answer · What happens: not say, give, look, hurt, weigh, treat · To what, where: reasons, other side, person · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (good answer, answer), 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 | 3 answer | det |
| 2 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 answer | amod |
| 3 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 say | nsubj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 dilemma | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 dilemma | det |
| 6 | dilemma | dilemma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 answer | nmod |
| 7 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 say | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 say | advmod |
| 9 | just | just | ADV | _ | 10 say | advmod |
| 10 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 because | punct |
| 12 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 10 say | ccomp |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 because | punct |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 gives | punct |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 gives | nsubj |
| 16 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 say | parataxis |
| 17 | reasons | reason | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 gives | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 looks | punct |
| 19 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 gives | conj |
| 20 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 24 hurt | mark |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 hurt | nsubj |
| 22 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 hurt | aux |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 hurt | aux:pass |
| 24 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 looks | advcl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 weighs | punct |
| 26 | weighs | weigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 gives | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 side | det |
| 28 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 side | amod |
| 29 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 weighs | obj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 treats | cc |
| 31 | treats | treat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 gives | conj |
| 32 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 33 person | det |
| 33 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 treats | obj |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 respect | case |
| 35 | respect | respect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 treats | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 say | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not say speech: assert | present · do-support | a good answer to a dilemma | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | give | present | answer | reasons | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Theme | ||||
| 3 | look | present | answer not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | hurt | could · passive | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | weigh | present | answer not said here | the other side | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme side=Value | ||||
| 6 | treat | present | answer not said here | every person | with respect | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent person=Recipient with respect=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:041-dilemmas-about-truth-and-friendship.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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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