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title: Judges ask questions: listen, think, then answer directly; saying "w… — Mock ethics olympiad · tree and pragmatics
description: Judges ask questions: listen, think, then answer directly; saying "we had not considered that" is better than bluffing, and when the other team speaks you begin with what was good in their view. Who acts: Judges, we, saying, other team. A sentence of the lesson «Mock ethics olympiad» of the religion
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# Mock ethics olympiad, sentence 3

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Judges ask questions: listen, think, then answer directly; saying "we had not considered that" is better than bluffing, and when the other team speaks you begin with what was good in their view.

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**Who acts:** Judges, we, saying, other team, you, teams · **What happens:** ask, listen, think, answer, say, not consider · **To what, where:** questions, that, view · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Judges, we, saying, other team), 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:3
# text = Judges ask questions: listen, think, then answer directly; saying "we had not considered that" is better than bluffing, and when the other team speaks you begin with what was good in their view.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Judges	judge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ask	ask	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	questions	question	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
5	listen	listen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
10	answer	answer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
11	directly	directly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	csubj	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
15	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	considered	consider	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	ccomp	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	parataxis	_	_
23	than	than	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_
24	bluffing	bluff	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
27	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	31	advmod	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	team	team	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	speaks	speak	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
32	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	begin	begin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	conj	_	_
34	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
35	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	37	nsubj	_	_
36	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
37	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	advcl	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	view	view	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | Judges | questions |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient |
| 2 | **listen** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **answer** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  |  |  |  | then | directly *property* | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **not** **consider** *in a quote* | past · perfect | we | that |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent that=Attribute |
| 7 | **is** | present | saying |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **bluff** | gerund | saying *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | the other team |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 10 | **begin** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 11 | **is** | past |  |  |  | teams's view |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 12 | **view** |  | teams *= team* |  |  |  |  |  | nom view «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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**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.

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

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