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title: A dilemma is a hard choice between two things that both seem right,… — Dilemmas about truth and friendship · tree and pragmatics
description: A dilemma is a hard choice between two things that both seem right, or two things that both seem wrong. Who acts: dilemma, two things. 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 
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# Dilemmas about truth and friendship, sentence 6

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A dilemma is a hard choice between two things that both seem right, or two things that both seem wrong.

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**Who acts:** dilemma, two things · **What happens:** be, seem · **To what, where:** hard choice

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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 (dilemma, two 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:6
# text = A dilemma is a hard choice between two things that both seem right, or two things that both seem wrong.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dilemma	dilemma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	choice	choice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	between	between	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
11	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	advmod	_	_
12	seem	seem	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
19	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:advmod
20	seem	seem	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
21	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a dilemma | a hard choice |  |  |  | between two things or two things | tree rules |
| 2 | **seem** | present | two things or two things |  |  |  |  | right *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **seem** | present | two things |  |  |  |  | wrong *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**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:6`.

**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): 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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