--- title: Some cases have a firm answer: if a friend says she's running away t… — Olympiad practice: the hardest cases · tree and pragmatics description: Some cases have a firm answer: if a friend says she's running away tonight and makes you promise not to tell, safety comes before the promise, so tell a trusted adult right away. Who acts: cases, friend, you, safety. 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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 (cases, friend, you, safety), 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:2 # text = Some cases have a firm answer: if a friend says she's running away tonight and makes you promise not to tell, safety comes before the promise, so tell a trusted adult right away. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 cases case NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 firm firm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 6 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 8 if if SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 12 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 running run VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 ccomp _ _ 15 away away ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 16 tonight tonight NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl:unmarked _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 19 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 promise promise VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 ccomp _ _ 21 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 23 advmod _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:ccomp 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 safety safety NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ _ 27 before before ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 promise promise NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 so so ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 conj _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 trusted trust VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 35 amod _ _ 35 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 36 right right ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 37 away away ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | some cases | a firm answer | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Patient | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a friend | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **run away** | present · progressive | friend | | | | tonight | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **make** | present | a friend *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **promise** *speech: promise* | present | you | | | | | | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **come** | present | safety | | | the promise | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before promise=Location | | 8 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | a friend *not said here* | | a trusted adult | | | away *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient | | 9 | **trust** | participle | | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: 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:2`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×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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