Olympiad dilemmas: friends, truth and telling, sentence 17

Most agree a lie needs a very strong reason, like saving a life; olympiad judges reward the team that weighs both sides.

Who acts: Most, lie, olympiad judges, team · What happens: agree, need, save, reward, weigh · To what, where: strong reason, life, team, sides · 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 (Most, lie, olympiad judges, team), 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	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 agree	nsubj
2	agree	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 lie	det
4	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 needs	nsubj
5	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 agree	ccomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 reason	det
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 strong	advmod
8	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 reason	amod
9	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 needs	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 saving	punct
11	like	like	SCONJ	_	12 saving	mark
12	saving	save	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 reason	nmod
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 life	det
14	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 saving	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 reward	punct
16	olympiad	olympiad	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 judges	compound
17	judges	judge	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 reward	nsubj
18	reward	reward	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 agree	parataxis
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 team	det
20	team	team	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 reward	obj
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 weighs	nsubj
22	weighs	weigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 team	acl:relcl
23	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	24 sides	det
24	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 weighs	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 agree	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	present	Most		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	need	present	a lie	a strong reason	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot reason=Theme
3	save	gerund		a life	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme
4	reward	present	olympiad judges	the team	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent team=Recipient
5	weigh	present	the team	both sides	vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme side=Value

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:17.

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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