--- title: People may keep their own lives private: "Ask her" protects a friend… — Olympiad practice: the hardest cases · tree and pragmatics description: People may keep their own lives private: "Ask her" protects a friend's dignity without lying; "Love covers over a multitude of sins" (1 Peter 4:8). Who acts: People, Love. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (People, Love), 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:13 # text = People may keep their own lives private: "Ask her" protects a friend's dignity without lying; "Love covers over a multitude of sins" (1 Peter 4:8). # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 People people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 5 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 lives life NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 7 private private ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 xcomp _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 10 Ask ask VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 11 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 13 protects protect VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod:poss _ _ 16 's 's PART POS _ 15 case _ _ 17 dignity dignity NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 18 without without SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 19 lying lie VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 advcl _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 " " PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ _ 22 Love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 23 covers cover VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 24 over over ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 multitude multitude NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 sins sin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nmod _ _ 29 " " PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ _ 30 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 31 punct _ _ 31 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 23 obl _ _ 32 Peter Peter PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 flat _ _ 33 4:8 4:8 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 31 flat _ _ 34 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 31 punct _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: changed voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** | may | People | People's own lives | | | | private *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | infinitive | | | friend | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | | 3 | **protect** | present | | a friend's dignity | | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dignity=Beneficiary | | 4 | **lie** | gerund | | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **cover** *in a quote* | present | Love | 1 | | a multitude of sins | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | 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:religion-ethics:100-olympiad-practice-the-hardest-cases.lesson:13`. **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): 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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