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title: Ethics is careful thinking about right and wrong, good and bad, and… — What is an ethics olympiad? · tree and pragmatics
description: Ethics is careful thinking about right and wrong, good and bad, and the reasons for them. Who acts: Ethics. 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 5

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Ethics is careful thinking about right and wrong, good and bad, and the reasons for them.

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**Who acts:** Ethics · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** careful thinking

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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 (Ethics), 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:5
# text = Ethics is careful thinking about right and wrong, good and bad, and the reasons for them.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Ethics	ethic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	thinking	think	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	about	about	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	right	right	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=4:cc
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	reasons	reason	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nmod	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | Ethics | careful thinking |  |  |  | about wrong | 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:036-what-is-an-ethics-olympiad.lesson:5`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×3, 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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