--- title: A dilemma is a choice where two good things pull in different direct… — Dilemmas about truth and friendship · tree and pragmatics description: A dilemma is a choice where two good things pull in different directions, such as being honest and being loyal to a friend. Who acts: dilemma, two good things. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dilemma, two good things), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:041-dilemmas-about-truth-and-friendship.lesson:0 # text = A dilemma is a choice where two good things pull in different directions, such as being honest and being loyal to a friend. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 041-dilemmas-about-truth-and-friendship.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 dilemma dilemma NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 choice choice NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 10 advmod _ _ 7 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 8 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 pull pull VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 directions direction NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 advmod _ _ 16 as as ADP IN _ 15 fixed _ _ 17 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 cop _ _ 18 honest honest ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 cop _ _ 21 loyal loyal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 conj _ _ 22 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:obl 25 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a dilemma | a choice | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **pull** | present | two good things | | | different directions | | | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is** | gerund | | | | | | honest *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | gerund | | | | | | to a friend; loyal *property* | tree rules | 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. **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:041-dilemmas-about-truth-and-friendship.lesson:0`. **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. 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