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# Olympiad: fair or unfair, chains of reasons and dilemmas ★★★, sentence 14

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"Do not follow the crowd in doing wrong" (Exodus 23:2): "everyone does it" is not a reason that something is fair.

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**Who acts:** you, crowd, everyone, something · **What happens:** not follow, do, not be, be · **To what, where:** crowd, reason · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (you, crowd, everyone, something), 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:14
# text = "Do not follow the crowd in doing wrong" (Exodus 23:2): "everyone does it" is not a reason that something is fair.
# 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
2	Do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	follow	follow	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	crowd	crowd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
8	doing	do	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
9	wrong	wrong	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
11	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Exodus	Exodus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:appos|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
13	23:2	23:2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	flat	_	_
14	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	12	punct	_	_
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
17	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	18	nsubj	_	_
18	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	csubj	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	28	nsubj	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	acl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **follow** *in a quote* | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* | the crowd |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** *in a quote* | gerund | the crowd *not said here* |  |  |  |  | wrong *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **do** *in a quote* | present | everyone | crowd |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
| 4 | **not** **is a** | present |  | a reason |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | present | something | a reason *not said here* |  |  |  | fair *property* | tree rules |

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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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**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:103-olympiad-fair-or-unfair-chains-of-reasons-and-dilemmas.lesson:14`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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