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title: In an ethics olympiad you meet dilemmas where truth, loyalty, kindne… — Olympiad dilemmas: friends, truth and telling · tree and pragmatics
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# Olympiad dilemmas: friends, truth and telling, sentence 0

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In an ethics olympiad you meet dilemmas where truth, loyalty, kindness and safety pull different ways, and the judges reward the answer that gives reasons and weighs both sides.

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**Who acts:** you, truth, judges, answer · **What happens:** meet, pull, reward, give, weigh · **To what, where:** dilemmas, ethics olympiad, answer, reasons, sides

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad dilemmas: friends, truth and telling» 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, truth, judges, answer), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:099-olympiad-dilemmas-friends-truth-and-telling.lesson:0
# text = In an ethics olympiad you meet dilemmas where truth, loyalty, kindness and safety pull different ways, and the judges reward the answer that gives reasons and weighs both sides.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 099-olympiad-dilemmas-friends-truth-and-telling.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, 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	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	meet	meet	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	dilemmas	dilemma	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	9	advmod	_	_
9	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:appos
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	loyalty	loyalty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	kindness	kindness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:appos
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	safety	safety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	pull	pull	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
17	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	judges	judge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	reward	reward	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
27	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
28	reasons	reason	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	weighs	weigh	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
31	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	32	det	_	_
32	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
33	.	.	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 | **meet** | present | you | dilemmas |  | a ethics olympiad |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dilemma=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **pull** | present | truth and loyalty and kindness and different ways |  |  |  |  |  | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **reward** | present | the judges | the answer |  |  |  |  | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent answer=Recipient |
| 4 | **give** | present | the answer | reasons |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Theme |
| 5 | **weigh** | present | the answer *not said here* | both sides |  |  |  |  | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme side=Value |

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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:099-olympiad-dilemmas-friends-truth-and-telling.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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.

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