Olympiad dilemmas: friends, truth and telling, sentence 14

Some Christians say a dodge is better than even a small surprise fib; most people think fibs that protect a surprise are harmless; Kant still says no lie at all.

Who acts: Christians, dodge, most people, fibs, Kant · What happens: say, be, think, protect · To what, where: surprise, lie, all · 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 (Christians, dodge, most people, fibs), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 Christians	det
2	Christians	Christian	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 say	nsubj
3	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 dodge	det
5	dodge	dodge	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 better	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 better	cop
7	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 say	ccomp
8	than	than	ADP	_	13 fib	case
9	even	even	ADV	_	13 fib	advmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 fib	det
11	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 fib	amod
12	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fib	compound
13	fib	fib	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 better	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 think	punct
15	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 people	amod
16	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 think	nsubj
17	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 say	parataxis
18	fibs	fib	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 harmless	nsubj
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 protect	nsubj
20	protect	protect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 fibs	acl:relcl
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 surprise	det
22	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 protect	obj
23	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 harmless	cop
24	harmless	harmless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 think	ccomp
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 says	punct
26	Kant	Kant	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 says	nsubj
27	still	still	ADV	_	28 says	advmod
28	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 think	conj
29	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	30 lie	det
30	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 says	obj
31	at	at	ADP	_	32 all	case
32	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 lie	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	some Christians					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	a dodge				than a small surprise fib; good property	tree rules
3	think speech: other	present	most people					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	protect	present	fibs	a surprise				vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent surprise=Beneficiary
5	is	present	fibs				harmless property	tree rules
6	say speech: assert	present	Kant	no lie	all	still		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent lie=Topic

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:14.

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): no change. 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.

See the release 0.4.

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