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title: In 1 Kings 3, two women claimed one baby; Solomon ordered it cut in… — Olympiad: fair or unfair, chains of reasons and… · tree and pragmatics
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# Olympiad: fair or unfair, chains of reasons and dilemmas ★★★, sentence 10

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In 1 Kings 3, two women claimed one baby; Solomon ordered it cut in two, and the real mother begged him to give the baby to the other woman rather than let it die, so he gave it to her.

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**Who acts:** two women, Solomon, real mother, baby · **What happens:** claim, order, cut, beg, give, let · **To what, where:** one baby, baby, two, Solomon, other woman, mother

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: fair or unfair, chains of reasons and dilemmas ★★★» 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 (two women, Solomon, real mother, baby), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:103-olympiad-fair-or-unfair-chains-of-reasons-and-dilemmas.lesson:10
# text = In 1 Kings 3, two women claimed one baby; Solomon ordered it cut in two, and the real mother begged him to give the baby to the other woman rather than let it die, so he gave it to her.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 103-olympiad-fair-or-unfair-chains-of-reasons-and-dilemmas.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, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	Kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
4	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	flat	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
6	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	claimed	claim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
12	Solomon	Solomon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	xcomp	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	begged	beg	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:parataxis
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:nmod
33	rather	rather	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	35	cc	_	_
34	than	than	ADP	IN	_	33	fixed	_	_
35	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:conj
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	_
37	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	xcomp	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	so	so	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
40	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
41	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
42	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	obj	_	_
43	to	to	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	obl	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **claim** *speech: other* | past | two women | one baby |  |  |  | in 1 Kings | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent baby=Topic |
| 2 | **order** | past | Solomon |  | baby |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent it=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **cut** *not said to happen* | participle | Solomon *not said here* |  |  | two |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | the real mother |  | Solomon |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **give** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the real mother *not said here* | the baby | the other woman |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent baby=Theme to woman=Recipient |
| 6 | **let** | infinitive | the real mother *not said here* | baby |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **die** | infinitive | baby *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 8 | **give** | past | Solomon | baby | mother |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to she=Recipient |

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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): R5-strong ×2, 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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