Olympiad dilemmas: friends, truth and telling, sentence 4
For the open ones, "it depends, and here are my reasons" is often the best answer, as long as you name what matters on each side.
Who acts: it, reasons, you · What happens: depend, be, name, matter · To what, where: best answer, side · 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 (it, reasons, you), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 ones | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 ones | det |
| 3 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ones | amod |
| 4 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 depends | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 ones | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 depends | punct |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 depends | nsubj |
| 8 | depends | depend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 answer | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 are | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 are | cc |
| 11 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 are | advmod |
| 12 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 depends | conj |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 reasons | nmod:poss |
| 14 | reasons | reason | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 are | nsubj |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 depends | punct |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 answer | cop |
| 17 | often | often | ADV | _ | 20 answer | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 answer | det |
| 19 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 20 answer | amod |
| 20 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 long | punct |
| 22 | as | as | ADV | _ | 23 long | advmod |
| 23 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 answer | advmod |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 name | mark |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 name | nsubj |
| 26 | name | name | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 long | advcl |
| 27 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 28 matters | nsubj |
| 28 | matters | matter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 name | ccomp |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 side | case |
| 30 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 side | det |
| 31 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 matters | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 answer | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | depend in a quote | present | it | for the open ones | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | does in a quote | present | my reasons | here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | be speech: assert | present | the best answer | long, often property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | name | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | matter | present | each side | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
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:4.
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): R6-punct-agree ×3, 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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