--- title: Most agree a lie needs a very strong reason, like saving a life; oly… — Olympiad dilemmas: friends, truth and telling · tree and pragmatics description: Most agree a lie needs a very strong reason, like saving a life; olympiad judges reward the team that weighs both sides. Who acts: Most, lie, olympiad judges, team. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Most, lie, olympiad judges, team), 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:17 # text = Most agree a lie needs a very strong reason, like saving a life; olympiad judges reward the team that 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 2 nsubj _ _ 2 agree agree VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 lie lie NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 7 very very ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 reason reason NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 like like SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 12 saving save VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 nmod _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 16 olympiad olympiad NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 judges judge NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 18 reward reward VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 team team NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 22 nsubj _ _ 22 weighs weigh VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl:relcl _ _ 23 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 24 det _ _ 24 sides side NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **agree** *speech: agree* | present | Most | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **need** | present | a lie | a strong reason | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot reason=Theme | | 3 | **save** | gerund | | a life | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme | | 4 | **reward** | present | olympiad judges | the team | | | | | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent team=Recipient | | 5 | **weigh** | present | the team | both sides | | | | | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme side=Value | 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. **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:17`. **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): 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. 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