--- title: Most people think lying to the murderer is right because saving a li… — Dilemmas about truth and friendship · tree and pragmatics description: Most people think lying to the murderer is right because saving a life matters more; the philosopher Immanuel Kant argued that even this lie is wrong (disputed). Who acts: Most people, lying, saving, philosopher. 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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 (Most people, lying, saving, philosopher), 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:11 # text = Most people think lying to the murderer is right because saving a life matters more; the philosopher Immanuel Kant argued that even this lie is wrong (disputed). # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 2 amod _ _ 2 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 lying lie VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 csubj _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 murderer murderer NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 9 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 ccomp _ _ 10 because because SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 11 saving save VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:nsubj 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 matters matter VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 15 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 14 advmod _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:det 18 philosopher philosopher NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:compound 19 Immanuel Immanuel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 20 Kant Kant PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 appos _ _ 21 argued argue VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 22 that that SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 23 even even ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 24 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 25 det _ _ 25 lie lie NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 27 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 ccomp _ _ 28 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 29 punct _ _ 29 disputed dispute VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 conj _ _ 30 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 29 punct _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present | Most people | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **lie** | gerund | | | | | | to the murderer | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | present | lying | | | | | right *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **save** | gerund | | a life | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme | | 5 | **matter** | present | saving | | | | | | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | | 6 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | past | the philosopher | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **is** | present | this lie | | | | | wrong *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **dispute** | participle | this lie *not said here* | | | | | | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:11`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-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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