--- title: In an open case the best answer says "it depends", names what matter… — Olympiad practice: the hardest cases · tree and pragmatics description: In an open case the best answer says "it depends", names what matters on each side, and explains which way it leans and why. Who acts: best answer, it, way, side. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad practice: the hardest cases» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependenc --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/100-olympiad-practice-the-hardest-cases/17/) [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/) / [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/) / [Olympiad practice: the hardest cases](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/100-olympiad-practice-the-hardest-cases/) / 17 # Olympiad practice: the hardest cases, sentence 17 In an open case the best answer says "it depends", names what matters on each side, and explains which way it leans and why. **Who acts:** best answer, it, way, side · **What happens:** say, depend, name, matter, explain, lean · **To what, where:** open case, side · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (best answer, it, way, side), 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:17 # text = In an open case the best answer says "it depends", names what matters on each side, and explains which way it leans and why. # 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): R5-strong ×2 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 case case NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 7 amod _ _ 7 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 depends depend VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 ccomp _ _ 12 " " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 names name VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 15 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 16 nsubj _ _ 16 matters matter VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 ccomp _ _ 17 on on ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 19 det _ _ 19 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 explains explain VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 23 which which DET WDT PronType=Int 24 det _ _ 24 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 leans lean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 ccomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:acl:relcl 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 26 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:conj 29 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the best answer | | | a open case | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **depend** *in a quote* | present | it | | | | | | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **name** | present | the best answer *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **matter** | present | | | | each side | | | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **explain** *speech: assert* | present | which way | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **lean** | present | side | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:17`. **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 ×2. **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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