--- title: A useful question is: am I telling to help someone or to hurt someone? — Dilemmas about truth and friendship · tree and pragmatics description: A useful question is: am I telling to help someone or to hurt someone? Who acts: I. A sentence of the lesson «Dilemmas about truth and friendship» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/41-dilemmas-about-truth-and-friendship/14/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/) / [Dilemmas about truth and friendship](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/41-dilemmas-about-truth-and-friendship/) / 14 # Dilemmas about truth and friendship, sentence 14 A useful question is: am I telling to help someone or to hurt someone? **Who acts:** I · **What happens:** be, tell, help, hurt · **To what, where:** useful question, someone · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Dilemmas about truth and friendship» 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 (I), 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:14 # text = A useful question is: am I telling to help someone or to hurt someone? # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 useful useful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 question question NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct 6 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 7 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 telling tell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 ccomp _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 xcomp _ _ 11 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 10 obj _ _ 12 or or CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 hurt hurt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 15 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 14 obj _ _ 16 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: yes/no question - act: ask - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** *speech: other* | present | | a useful question | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · progressive | I | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **help** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | | someone | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Beneficiary | | 4 | **hurt** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | someone | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer someone=Patient | 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:14`. **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): R6-punct-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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