Olympiad dilemmas: friends, truth and telling, sentence 12
"Do not follow the crowd in doing wrong" (Exodus 23:2); in famous experiments in the 1950s, many people agreed with a group's obviously wrong answer just to fit in.
Who acts: you, crowd, many people, group · What happens: not follow, do, agree, fit in, answer · To what, where: crowd, famous experiments · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad dilemmas: friends, truth and telling» 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, crowd, many people, group), 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 | _ | 4 follow | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 follow | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 follow | advmod |
| 4 | follow | follow | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 crowd | det |
| 6 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 follow | obj |
| 7 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 8 doing | mark |
| 8 | doing | do | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 crowd | acl |
| 9 | wrong | wrong | ADV | _ | 8 doing | advmod |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 crowd | punct |
| 11 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 12 Exodus | punct |
| 12 | Exodus | Exodus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 follow | parataxis |
| 13 | 23:2 | 23:2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 Exodus | flat |
| 14 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 12 Exodus | punct |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 experiments | punct |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 experiments | case |
| 17 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 experiments | amod |
| 18 | experiments | experiment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 agreed | obl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 1950s | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 1950s | det |
| 21 | 1950s | 1950 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 18 experiments | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 people | punct |
| 23 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 people | amod |
| 24 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 agreed | nsubj |
| 25 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 follow | parataxis |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 answer | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 group | det |
| 28 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 answer | nmod:poss |
| 29 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 28 group | case |
| 30 | obviously | obviously | ADV | _ | 31 wrong | advmod |
| 31 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 answer | amod |
| 32 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 agreed | obl |
| 33 | just | just | ADV | _ | 35 fit | advmod |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 fit | mark |
| 35 | fit | fit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 agreed | advcl |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 fit | compound:prt |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 follow | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not follow in a quote | imperative · do-support | you not said here | the crowd | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do in a quote | gerund | the crowd not said here | wrong property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | agree speech: agree | past | many people | famous experiments in the 1950s | with a group's wrong answer | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent how S»: agent=Agent with answer=Co-Agent | |||
| 4 | fit in | to-infinitive | many people not said here | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | answer | a group | nom answer «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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:099-olympiad-dilemmas-friends-truth-and-telling.lesson:12.
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. 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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