Olympiad dilemmas: friends, truth and telling, sentence 6

Kant said you must not lie even to a murderer at the door; most philosophers disagree and say protecting a person comes first; many suggest refusing to answer and getting help.

Who acts: Kant, you, most philosophers, protecting, many · What happens: say, not lie, disagree, protect, come, suggest · To what, where: person, help · 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 (Kant, you, most philosophers, protecting), 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	Kant	Kant	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 lie	nsubj
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 lie	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 lie	advmod
6	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
7	even	even	ADV	_	10 murderer	advmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 murderer	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 murderer	det
10	murderer	murderer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lie	obl
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 door	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 door	det
13	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 murderer	nmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 disagree	punct
15	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 philosophers	amod
16	philosophers	philosopher	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 disagree	nsubj
17	disagree	disagree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 lie	conj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 say	cc
19	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 disagree	conj
20	protecting	protect	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 comes	csubj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 person	det
22	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 protecting	obj
23	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 say	ccomp
24	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	23 comes	advmod
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 suggest	punct
26	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 suggest	nsubj
27	suggest	suggest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 lie	conj
28	refusing	refuse	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 suggest	xcomp
29	to	to	PART	_	30 answer	mark
30	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 refusing	xcomp
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 getting	cc
32	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 refusing	conj
33	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 getting	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Kant				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not lie	must	you			to a murderer at the door	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	disagree	present	most philosophers				vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	present	most philosophers not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	protect	gerund			a person		vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Beneficiary
6	come	present	protecting			first property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	suggest speech: suggest	present	many				vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	refuse	gerund	many not said here				vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
9	not answer speech: assert	to-infinitive	many not said here				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	get	gerund	many not said here	help			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer help=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:6.

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 ×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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