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title: In an ethics olympiad teams get a case, a short story with a hard ch… — Mock ethics olympiad · tree and pragmatics
description: In an ethics olympiad teams get a case, a short story with a hard choice, and discuss it in front of judges; they score for good thinking, not for "winning" an argument. Who acts: teams. A sentence of the lesson «Mock ethics olympiad» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its d
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# Mock ethics olympiad, sentence 0

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In an ethics olympiad teams get a case, a short story with a hard choice, and discuss it in front of judges; they score for good thinking, not for "winning" an argument.

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**Who acts:** teams · **What happens:** get, discuss, score · **To what, where:** case, ethics olympiad, front

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Mock ethics olympiad» 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 (teams), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:050-mock-ethics-olympiad.lesson:0
# text = In an ethics olympiad teams get a case, a short story with a hard choice, and discuss it in front of judges; they score for good thinking, not for "winning" an argument.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 050-mock-ethics-olympiad.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, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	ethics	ethic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
4	olympiad	olympiad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	teams	team	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	choice	choice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	discuss	discuss	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	judges	judge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	score	score	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	thinking	thinking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
33	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=35:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
34	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	35	punct	_	_
35	winning	winning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	appos	_	_
36	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	35	punct	_	_
37	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	argument	argument	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:obj
39	.	.	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 | **get** | present | teams | a case |  | a ethics olympiad |  | a short story with a hard choice *obl* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer case=Stimulus |
| 2 | **discuss** *speech: other* | infinitive | teams *not said here* | case |  | front of judges |  |  | vn chit\_chat-37.6-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 3 | **score** | present | teams *= team* |  |  |  |  | for good thinking | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent for thinking=Source |

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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:050-mock-ethics-olympiad.lesson:0`.

**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, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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