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title: In an ethics olympiad, school teams are given short stories called c… — What is an ethics olympiad? · tree and pragmatics
description: In an ethics olympiad, school teams are given short stories called cases, each with a dilemma, where every choice has something costly about it. Who acts: short stories, choice. A sentence of the lesson «What is an ethics olympiad?» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dep
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# What is an ethics olympiad?, sentence 1

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In an ethics olympiad, school teams are given short stories called cases, each with a dilemma, where every choice has something costly about it.

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**Who acts:** short stories, choice · **What happens:** give, call, have · **To what, where:** school teams, ethics olympiad, cases, something · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «What is an ethics olympiad?» 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 (short stories, choice), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:036-what-is-an-ethics-olympiad.lesson:1
# text = In an ethics olympiad, school teams are given short stories called cases, each with a dilemma, where every choice has something costly about it.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 036-what-is-an-ethics-olympiad.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	ethics	ethic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
4	olympiad	olympiad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	teams	team	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
13	cases	case	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	appos	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	dilemma	dilemma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	23	advmod	_	_
21	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	det	_	_
22	choice	choice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
24	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	23	obj	_	_
25	costly	costly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
26	about	about	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present · passive |  | school teams |  | a ethics olympiad |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient story=Theme |
| 2 | **call** | participle | short stories *not said here* | cases |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **have** | present | every choice | something |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient |

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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:036-what-is-an-ethics-olympiad.lesson:1`.

**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, 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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