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title: Fair ways to share something scarce include drawing lots, a waiting… — Olympiad: fair or unfair, chains of reasons and… · tree and pragmatics
description: Fair ways to share something scarce include drawing lots, a waiting list and helping those in greatest need; choosing your friends is favouritism. Who acts: Fair ways, choosing. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: fair or unfair, chains of reasons and dilemmas ★★★» of the religion ethics course of M
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# Olympiad: fair or unfair, chains of reasons and dilemmas ★★★, sentence 9

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Fair ways to share something scarce include drawing lots, a waiting list and helping those in greatest need; choosing your friends is favouritism.

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**Who acts:** Fair ways, choosing · **What happens:** share, include, draw, help, choose, be · **To what, where:** something, lots, those, greatest need, friends, favouritism

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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 (Fair ways, choosing), 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:9
# text = Fair ways to share something scarce include drawing lots, a waiting list and helping those in greatest need; choosing your friends is favouritism.
# 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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	share	share	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl	_	_
5	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	4	obj	_	_
6	scarce	scarce	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
7	include	include	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	drawing	draw	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	obj	_	_
9	lots	lot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	waiting	waiting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	list	list	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	helping	help	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	conj	_	_
16	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	15	obj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	greatest	great	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	19	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
19	need	need	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
21	choosing	choose	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	csubj	_	_
22	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	favouritism	favouritism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **share** | to-infinitive | Fair ways *not said here* | something |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **include** | present | Fair ways |  |  |  |  |  | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **draw** | gerund |  | lots and a waiting list |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Theme |
| 4 | **help** | gerund |  | those |  | greatest need |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **choose** | gerund |  | your friends |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Theme |
| 6 | **is a** | present | choosing | favouritism |  |  |  |  | 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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**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, R8-pos-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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