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title: Sometimes a more important duty outweighs a rule, such as running in… — Cheating, rules and games · tree and pragmatics
description: Sometimes a more important duty outweighs a rule, such as running in the corridor to fetch help for a hurt child. Who acts: important duty, rule. A sentence of the lesson «Cheating, rules and games» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Cheating, rules and games, sentence 13

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Sometimes a more important duty outweighs a rule, such as running in the corridor to fetch help for a hurt child.

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**Who acts:** important duty, rule · **What happens:** outweigh, run, fetch, hurt · **To what, where:** rule, corridor, help

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Cheating, rules and games» 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 (important duty, rule), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:044-cheating-rules-and-games.lesson:13
# text = Sometimes a more important duty outweighs a rule, such as running in the corridor to fetch help for a hurt child.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 044-cheating-rules-and-games.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	6	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
4	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	duty	duty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	outweighs	outweigh	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=SCONJ	12	mark	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	fixed	_	_
12	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	corridor	corridor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:acl
18	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
22	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **outweigh** | present | a important duty | a rule |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot rule=Theme |
| 2 | **run** | gerund | a rule *not said here* |  |  | the corridor |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in corridor=Trajectory |
| 3 | **fetch** | to-infinitive | a rule *not said here* | help |  |  |  | for a hurt child | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent help=Theme for child=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **hurt** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:044-cheating-rules-and-games.lesson:13`.

**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 ×2, 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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