--- title: A good answer to a dilemma does not just say "because"; it gives rea… — Dilemmas about truth and friendship · tree and pragmatics description: A good answer to a dilemma does not just say "because"; it gives reasons, looks at who could be hurt, weighs the other side and treats every person with respect. Who acts: good answer, answer. 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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 (good answer, answer), 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:3 # text = A good answer to a dilemma does not just say "because"; it gives reasons, looks at who could be hurt, weighs the other side and treats every person with respect. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 dilemma dilemma NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 8 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 9 just just ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 11 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct 12 because because SCONJ IN _ 10 ccomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:mark 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj 17 reasons reason NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:parataxis 20 at at SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 21 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 24 nsubj _ _ 22 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 23 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 24 aux:pass _ _ 24 hurt hurt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 advcl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 weighs weigh VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:nmod 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 treats treat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=26:conj 32 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 33 det _ _ 33 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 with with ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 respect respect NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:nmod 36 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* | present · do-support | a good answer to a dilemma | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **give** | present | answer | reasons | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Theme | | 3 | **look** | present | answer *not said here* | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **hurt** | could · passive | | | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 5 | **weigh** | present | answer *not said here* | the other side | | | | | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme side=Value | | 6 | **treat** | present | answer *not said here* | | every person | | | with respect | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent person=Recipient with respect=Theme | 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:3`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Dilemmas about truth and friendship, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/41-dilemmas-about-truth-and-friendship/2/) - next →: [Dilemmas about truth and friendship, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/41-dilemmas-about-truth-and-friendship/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/41-dilemmas-about-truth-and-friendship/)