Olympiad dilemmas: friends, truth and telling, sentence 2
The Bible has hard cases too: Rahab hid the Israelite spies and misled the king's men (Joshua 2:4-6), and the Hebrew midwives misled Pharaoh to save baby boys (Exodus 1:15-21); Christians still disagree whether the lies themselves were right.
Who acts: Bible, Rahab, Hebrew midwives, Christians, lies · What happens: have, hide, mislead, save, disagree, be · To what, where: hard cases, Israelite spies, men, Pharaoh, baby boys
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 (Bible, Rahab, Hebrew midwives, Christians), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Bible | det |
| 2 | Bible | Bible | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 cases | amod |
| 5 | cases | case | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 has | obj |
| 6 | too | too | ADV | _ | 3 has | advmod |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 hid | punct |
| 8 | Rahab | Rahab | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 hid | nsubj |
| 9 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 has | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 spies | det |
| 11 | Israelite | israelite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 spies | amod |
| 12 | spies | spy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 hid | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 misled | cc |
| 14 | misled | mislead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 hid | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 king | det |
| 16 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 men | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 king | case |
| 18 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 misled | obj |
| 19 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 20 Joshua | punct |
| 20 | Joshua | Joshua | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 misled | obl |
| 21 | 2:4-6 | 2:4-6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 Joshua | flat |
| 22 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 20 Joshua | punct |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 misled | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 misled | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 midwives | det |
| 26 | Hebrew | hebrew | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 midwives | amod |
| 27 | midwives | midwife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 misled | nsubj |
| 28 | misled | mislead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 hid | conj |
| 29 | Pharaoh | Pharaoh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 misled | obj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 save | mark |
| 31 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 misled | advcl |
| 32 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 boys | compound |
| 33 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 save | obj |
| 34 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 35 Exodus | punct |
| 35 | Exodus | exodus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 boys | appos |
| 36 | 1:15-21 | 1:15-21 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 35 Exodus | flat |
| 37 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 35 Exodus | punct |
| 38 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 41 disagree | punct |
| 39 | Christians | Christian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 41 disagree | nsubj |
| 40 | still | still | ADV | _ | 41 disagree | advmod |
| 41 | disagree | disagree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 has | parataxis |
| 42 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 47 right | mark |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 lies | det |
| 44 | lies | lie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 right | nsubj |
| 45 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 44 lies | nmod:unmarked |
| 46 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 right | cop |
| 47 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 disagree | ccomp |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the Bible | hard cases | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent case=Patient | ||||
| 2 | hide | past | Rahab | the Israelite spies | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spy=Patient | ||||
| 3 | mislead | past | Rahab not said here | the king's men | Joshua obl | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient | |||
| 4 | mislead | past | the Hebrew midwives | Pharaoh | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pharaoh=Patient | ||||
| 5 | save | to-infinitive | the Hebrew midwives not said here | baby boys | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Theme | ||||
| 6 | disagree | present | Christians | still | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | is | past | the lies Christians | right property | 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:2.
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, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-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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