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title: A case is a short story given to the teams to discuss, before or dur… — What is an ethics olympiad? · tree and pragmatics
description: A case is a short story given to the teams to discuss, before or during the competition. Who acts: case. A sentence of the lesson «What is an ethics olympiad?» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# What is an ethics olympiad?, sentence 12

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A case is a short story given to the teams to discuss, before or during the competition.

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**Who acts:** case · **What happens:** be, give, discuss · **To what, where:** short story, teams

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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 (case), 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:12
# text = A case is a short story given to the teams to discuss, before or during the competition.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	teams	team	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	discuss	discuss	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:acl
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	before	before	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	during	during	ADP	IN	_	14	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	competition	competition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **is a** | present | a case | a short story |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | participle |  | a short story *not said here* | the teams |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to team=Recipient |
| 3 | **discuss** *speech: other* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | before the competition |  | vn chit\_chat-37.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:12`.

**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. **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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