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title: Picture two children and one last slice of cake: one fair way is "on… — Sharing and fairness · tree and pragmatics
description: Picture two children and one last slice of cake: one fair way is "one cuts, the other chooses", because the one who cuts will try hard to make both halves the same. Who acts: you, one fair way, other, one. A sentence of the lesson «Sharing and fairness» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primar
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# Sharing and fairness, sentence 1

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Picture two children and one last slice of cake: one fair way is "one cuts, the other chooses", because the one who cuts will try hard to make both halves the same.

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**Who acts:** you, one fair way, other, one · **What happens:** picture, be, chooses, cut, try, make · **To what, where:** two children, one cuts, halves, cake · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Sharing and fairness» 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 (you, one fair way, other, one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:043-sharing-and-fairness.lesson:1
# text = Picture two children and one last slice of cake: one fair way is "one cuts, the other chooses", because the one who cuts will try hard to make both halves the same.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 043-sharing-and-fairness.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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Picture	picture	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
6	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	slice	slice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
12	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
16	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	cuts	cut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	parataxis	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:det
20	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:amod
21	chooses	chooses	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
24	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
27	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
28	cuts	cut	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
29	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
31	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	30	advmod	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	xcomp	_	_
34	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	35	det	_	_
35	halves	half	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	xcomp	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp, voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | two children and one last slice of cake |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent child=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | one fair way | one cuts |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **chooses** *in a quote* |  | the other |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **cut** | present | the one |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **try** | future | the one |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **make** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the one *not said here* | both halves |  |  |  | same *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset half=Product |
| 7 | **slice** |  |  | cake |  |  |  |  | nom slice «possession transitive»: of=patient |

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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:043-sharing-and-fairness.lesson:1`.

**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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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