--- title: Some promises can be outweighed by a more serious duty, such as help… — Dilemmas about truth and friendship · tree and pragmatics description: Some promises can be outweighed by a more serious duty, such as helping someone who is hurt, and then you should explain and apologise. Who acts: serious duty, you. 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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 (serious duty, you), 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:19 # text = Some promises can be outweighed by a more serious duty, such as helping someone who is hurt, and then you should explain and apologise. # 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): no change 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 promises promise NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 outweighed outweigh VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 by by ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 8 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 9 advmod _ _ 9 serious serious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 duty duty NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=SCONJ 14 mark _ _ 13 as as ADP IN _ 12 fixed _ _ 14 helping help VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 acl _ _ 15 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 14 obj _ _ 16 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux:pass _ _ 18 hurt hurt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 acl:relcl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 21 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 24 advmod _ _ 22 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 explain explain VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 apologise apologise VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 conj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **outweigh** | can · passive | a serious duty | some promises | | | | | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot subject=Theme | | 2 | **help** | gerund | a serious duty *not said here* | | someone | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Beneficiary | | 3 | **hurt** | present · passive | | | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 4 | **explain** *speech: assert* | should | you | | | | then | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **apologise** *speech: apologize* | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | 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:19`. **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): no change. **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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