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title: The Ethics Bowl is a similar competition in the USA and elsewhere, w… — What is an ethics olympiad? · tree and pragmatics
description: The Ethics Bowl is a similar competition in the USA and elsewhere, where teams analyse cases and respond to each other. Who acts: Ethics Bowl, teams. 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 pragmat
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# What is an ethics olympiad?, sentence 9

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The Ethics Bowl is a similar competition in the USA and elsewhere, where teams analyse cases and respond to each other.

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**Who acts:** Ethics Bowl, teams · **What happens:** be, analyse, respond · **To what, where:** similar competition, USA, cases

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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 Bowl, teams), 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:9
# text = The Ethics Bowl is a similar competition in the USA and elsewhere, where teams analyse cases and respond to each other.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Ethics	ethic	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	compound	_	_
3	Bowl	Bowl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	competition	competition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	USA	USA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	elsewhere	elsewhere	ADV	RB	_	10	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	16	advmod	_	_
15	teams	team	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	analyse	analyse	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
17	cases	case	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	respond	respond	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	19	obl	_	_
22	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	fixed	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **is a** | present | the Ethics Bowl | a similar competition |  | the USA |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **analyse** | present | teams | cases |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent case=Theme |
| 3 | **respond** *speech: other* | present | teams *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to each | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to each=Theme |

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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): 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.

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