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title: Some answers are not open: if a friend is frightened of being hurt a… — Olympiad dilemmas: friends, truth and telling · tree and pragmatics
description: Some answers are not open: if a friend is frightened of being hurt at home, a trusted adult needs to know, and if an innocent person is blamed, loyalty to the guilty friend has limits. Who acts: answers, trusted adult, loyalty. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad dilemmas: friends, truth and telling»
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# Olympiad dilemmas: friends, truth and telling, sentence 3

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Some answers are not open: if a friend is frightened of being hurt at home, a trusted adult needs to know, and if an innocent person is blamed, loyalty to the guilty friend has limits.

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**Who acts:** answers, trusted adult, loyalty · **What happens:** not be, frighten, hurt, need, know, blame · **To what, where:** friend, home, innocent person, limits

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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 (answers, trusted adult, loyalty), 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:3
# text = Some answers are not open: if a friend is frightened of being hurt at home, a trusted adult needs to know, and if an innocent person is blamed, loyalty to the guilty friend has limits.
# 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): no change
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	answers	answer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
7	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	frightened	frighten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
12	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	advcl	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	trusted	trust	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
26	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
27	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	innocent	innocent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	blamed	blame	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	38	advcl	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
33	loyalty	loyalty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	guilty	guilty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
38	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
39	limits	limit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obj	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present | some answers |  |  |  |  | open *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **frighten** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · passive |  | a friend |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 3 | **hurt** | gerund · passive |  |  |  | home |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
| 4 | **need** | present | a trusted adult |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 5 | **know** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a trusted adult *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **blame** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · passive |  | a innocent person |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 7 | **have** | present | loyalty to the guilty friend | limits |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent limit=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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**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.

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