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title: The ethical question should be put in one clear sentence, because cl… — Mock ethics olympiad · tree and pragmatics
description: The ethical question should be put in one clear sentence, because clear questions lead to clear answers. Who acts: clear questions. A sentence of the lesson «Mock ethics olympiad» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Mock ethics olympiad, sentence 8

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The ethical question should be put in one clear sentence, because clear questions lead to clear answers.

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**Who acts:** clear questions · **What happens:** put, lead · **To what, where:** ethical question, one clear sentence

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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 (clear questions), 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:8
# text = The ethical question should be put in one clear sentence, because clear questions lead to clear answers.
# 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): no change
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	ethical	ethical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
9	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	sentence	sentence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	questions	question	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	lead	lead	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	answers	answer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
19	.	.	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 | **put** | should · passive |  | the ethical question |  | one clear sentence |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in sentence=Destination |
| 2 | **lead** | present | clear questions |  |  |  |  | to clear answers | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to answer=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:050-mock-ethics-olympiad.lesson:8`.

**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): no change. **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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