--- title: Clever fairness tricks exist: when two children share a cake, one cu… — Thinking cleverly about people · tree and pragmatics description: Clever fairness tricks exist: when two children share a cake, one cuts and the other chooses, so the cutter has every reason to make the pieces equal. Who acts: Clever fairness tricks, two children, one, other. A sentence of the lesson «Thinking cleverly about people» of the everyday course of Mova' --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/60-reasoning-about-people/5/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Thinking cleverly about people](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/60-reasoning-about-people/) / 5 # Thinking cleverly about people, sentence 5 Clever fairness tricks exist: when two children share a cake, one cuts and the other chooses, so the cutter has every reason to make the pieces equal. **Who acts:** Clever fairness tricks, two children, one, other, cutter · **What happens:** exist, share, cut, choose, have, make · **To what, where:** cake, reason, pieces This is a sentence of the lesson «Thinking cleverly about people» of the everyday 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 (Clever fairness tricks, two children, one, other), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:060-reasoning-about-people.lesson:5 # text = Clever fairness tricks exist: when two children share a cake, one cuts and the other chooses, so the cutter has every reason to make the pieces equal. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 060-reasoning-about-people.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1 1 Clever clever ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 fairness fairness NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 tricks trick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 exist exist VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 6 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 9 advmod _ _ 7 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 9 share share VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 cake cake NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 nsubj _ _ 14 cuts cut VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=14:cc 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 nsubj _ _ 18 chooses choose VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 so so ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 cutter cutter NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 24 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 25 det _ _ 25 reason reason NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 acl _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 pieces piece NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 30 equal equal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:amod 31 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **exist** | present | Clever fairness tricks | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **share** | infinitive | two children | a cake | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **cut** | present | one | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **choose** | present | the other | | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **have** | present | the cutter | every reason | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Patient | | 6 | **make** | to-infinitive | the cutter *not said here* | the pieces | | | | equal *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset piece=Product | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:everyday:060-reasoning-about-people.lesson:5`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Thinking cleverly about people, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/60-reasoning-about-people/4/) - next →: [Thinking cleverly about people, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/60-reasoning-about-people/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/60-reasoning-about-people/)