--- title: Chains of events work the same way: if Ali grabs Ben's ball, Ben sho… — Olympiad: fair or unfair, chains of reasons and… · tree and pragmatics description: Chains of events work the same way: if Ali grabs Ben's ball, Ben shoves Ali, and Ali falls on Cal's sandcastle, each person owes a sorry for their own link, and nobody's sorry wipes out someone else's. Who acts: Chains, Ali, Ben, person. 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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 (Chains, Ali, Ben, person), 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:2 # text = Chains of events work the same way: if Ali grabs Ben's ball, Ben shoves Ali, and Ali falls on Cal's sandcastle, each person owes a sorry for their own link, and nobody's sorry wipes out someone else's. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Chains chain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 events event NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 nmod _ _ 4 work work VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 9 if if SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 10 Ali Ali PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 grabs grab VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 advcl _ _ 12 Ben Ben PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nmod:poss _ _ 13 's 's PART POS _ 12 case _ _ 14 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 Ben Ben PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 shoves shove VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 18 Ali Ali PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 Ali Ali PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 falls fall VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 23 on on ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 Cal Cal PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nmod:poss _ _ 25 's 's PART POS _ 24 case _ _ 26 sandcastle sandcastle NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 29 det _ _ 29 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 owes owe VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 sorry sorry NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 33 for for ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 35 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 link link NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 39 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 41 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=41:nmod:poss 40 's 's PART POS _ 39 case _ _ 41 sorry sorry NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ _ 42 wipes wipe VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 conj _ _ 43 out out ADP RP _ 42 compound:prt _ _ 44 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 42 obj _ _ 45 else else ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 46 's 's PART POS _ 44 case _ _ 47 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **work** | present | Chains of events | the same way | | | | | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent way=Material | | 2 | **grab** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | Ali | Ben's ball | | | | | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Theme | | 3 | **shove** | present | Ben | Ali | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ali=Theme | | 4 | **fall** | present | Ali | | | Cal's sandcastle | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on sandcastle=Location | | 5 | **owe** | present | each person | a sorry | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent sorry=Theme | | 6 | **sorry** | | nobody | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **wipe out** | present | sorry | someone | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent someone=Source | 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:103-olympiad-fair-or-unfair-chains-of-reasons-and-dilemmas.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 ×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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