Olympiad dilemmas: friends, truth and telling, sentence 16
Augustine and Aquinas taught that every lie is wrong; many others point to Rahab and the midwives; all agree truthfulness is God's will.
Who acts: Augustine, lie, many others, all, truthfulness · What happens: teach, be, point, agree, will · To what, where: Rahab · 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 (Augustine, lie, many others, all), 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 | Augustine | Augustine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 taught | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 Aquinas | cc |
| 3 | Aquinas | Aquinas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Augustine | conj |
| 4 | taught | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 wrong | mark |
| 6 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 lie | det |
| 7 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wrong | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 wrong | cop |
| 9 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 taught | ccomp |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 point | punct |
| 11 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 others | amod |
| 12 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 point | nsubj |
| 13 | point | point | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 taught | parataxis |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 Rahab | case |
| 15 | Rahab | Rahab | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 point | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 midwives | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 midwives | det |
| 18 | midwives | midwife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 Rahab | conj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 agree | punct |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 agree | nsubj |
| 21 | agree | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 taught | conj |
| 22 | truthfulness | truthfulness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 will | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 God | cop |
| 24 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 will | nmod:poss |
| 25 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 24 God | case |
| 26 | will | will | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 agree | ccomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 taught | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | teach speech: other | past | Augustine and Aquinas | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | every lie | wrong property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | point | present | many others | Rahab and the midwives | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to rahab=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | agree speech: agree | present | all | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | present | 's God | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | will | truthfulness | 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:099-olympiad-dilemmas-friends-truth-and-telling.lesson:16.
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, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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