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title: "Do not follow the crowd in doing wrong" (Exodus 23:2); in famous ex… — Olympiad dilemmas: friends, truth and telling · tree and pragmatics
description: "Do not follow the crowd in doing wrong" (Exodus 23:2); in famous experiments in the 1950s, many people agreed with a group's obviously wrong answer just to fit in. Who acts: you, crowd, many people, group. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad dilemmas: friends, truth and telling» of the religion ethi
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# Olympiad dilemmas: friends, truth and telling, sentence 12

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"Do not follow the crowd in doing wrong" (Exodus 23:2); in famous experiments in the 1950s, many people agreed with a group's obviously wrong answer just to fit in.

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**Who acts:** you, crowd, many people, group · **What happens:** not follow, do, agree, fit in, answer · **To what, where:** crowd, famous experiments · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, crowd, many people, group), 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:12
# text = "Do not follow the crowd in doing wrong" (Exodus 23:2); in famous experiments in the 1950s, many people agreed with a group's obviously wrong answer just to fit in.
# 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 ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
2	Do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	follow	follow	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	crowd	crowd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	doing	do	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
9	wrong	wrong	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
11	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Exodus	Exodus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:appos|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
13	23:2	23:2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	flat	_	_
14	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	12	punct	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	experiments	experiment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	1950s	1950	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	18	nmod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	agreed	agree	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod:poss	_	_
29	's	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	_
30	obviously	obviously	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
33	just	just	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	fit	fit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	compound:prt	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **follow** *in a quote* | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* | the crowd |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** *in a quote* | gerund | the crowd *not said here* |  |  |  |  | wrong *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past | many people |  |  | famous experiments in the 1950s |  | with a group's wrong answer | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent how S»: agent=Agent with answer=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **fit in** | to-infinitive | many people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **answer** |  | a group |  |  |  |  |  | nom answer «communication 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. **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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