Dilemmas about truth and friendship, sentence 6
A dilemma is a hard choice between two things that both seem right, or two things that both seem wrong.
Who acts: dilemma, two things · What happens: be, seem · To what, where: hard choice
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 (dilemma, two things), 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 dilemma | det |
| 2 | dilemma | dilemma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 choice | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 choice | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 choice | det |
| 5 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 choice | amod |
| 6 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | between | between | ADP | _ | 9 things | case |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 things | nummod |
| 9 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 choice | nmod |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 seem | nsubj |
| 11 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 seem | advmod |
| 12 | seem | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 things | acl:relcl |
| 13 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 seem | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 things | punct |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 things | cc |
| 16 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 things | nummod |
| 17 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 things | conj |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 seem | nsubj |
| 19 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 seem | nsubj |
| 20 | seem | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 things | acl:relcl |
| 21 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 seem | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 choice | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a dilemma | a hard choice | between two things or two things | tree rules | |||
| 2 | seem | present | two things or two things | right property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | seem | present | two things | wrong property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=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:6.
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): 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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