--- title: A promise cannot bind you to stand by while someone comes to harm; k… — Olympiad practice: the hardest cases · tree and pragmatics description: A promise cannot bind you to stand by while someone comes to harm; keeping someone safe outweighs a promise. Who acts: promise, someone, keeping. 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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 (promise, someone, keeping), 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:9 # text = A promise cannot bind you to stand by while someone comes to harm; keeping someone safe outweighs a promise. # 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 ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 promise promise NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 bind bind VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 stand stand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 9 by by ADP IN _ 8 obl _ _ 10 while while SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 11 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 12 nsubj _ _ 12 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 harm harm VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 keeping keep VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 19 csubj _ _ 17 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 16 obj _ _ 18 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:amod 19 outweighs outweigh VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 promise promise NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **bind** | can | a promise | you | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **stand by** | to-infinitive | a promise *not said here* | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **come** | present | someone | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **harm** | to-infinitive | someone *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **keep** | gerund | | someone | | | | safe *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Theme | | 6 | **outweigh** | present | keeping | a promise | | | | | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot promise=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:9`. **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 ×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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