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# Olympiad practice: the hardest cases, sentence 0

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The hardest olympiad cases put good things against each other: helping a friend versus honesty, a promise versus safety, a trophy versus the truth, a friend's dignity versus a straight answer.

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**Who acts:** hardest olympiad cases · **What happens:** put, help · **To what, where:** good things, each, friend

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad practice: the hardest cases» 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 (hardest olympiad cases), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:100-olympiad-practice-the-hardest-cases.lesson:0
# text = The hardest olympiad cases put good things against each other: helping a friend versus honesty, a promise versus safety, a trophy versus the truth, a friend's dignity versus a straight answer.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 100-olympiad-practice-the-hardest-cases.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	hardest	hard	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	amod	_	_
3	olympiad	olympiad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	cases	case	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
6	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	against	against	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	obl	_	_
10	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	fixed	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
12	helping	help	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	versus	versus	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	honesty	honesty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	promise	promise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	acl:relcl	_	_
20	versus	versus	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	safety	safety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	trophy	trophy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
25	versus	versus	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod:poss	_	_
31	's	's	PART	POS	_	30	case	_	_
32	dignity	dignity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
33	versus	versus	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	straight	straight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | past | the hardest olympiad cases | good things |  | each |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent thing=Theme against each=Destination |
| 2 | **help** | gerund | the hardest olympiad cases *not said here* |  | a friend |  |  | versus honesty | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Beneficiary |

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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.

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**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 ×1, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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