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title: For the open ones, "it depends, and here are my reasons" is often th… — Olympiad dilemmas: friends, truth and telling · tree and pragmatics
description: For the open ones, "it depends, and here are my reasons" is often the best answer, as long as you name what matters on each side. Who acts: it, reasons, you. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad dilemmas: friends, truth and telling» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its depen
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# Olympiad dilemmas: friends, truth and telling, sentence 4

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For the open ones, "it depends, and here are my reasons" is often the best answer, as long as you name what matters on each side.

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**Who acts:** it, reasons, you · **What happens:** depend, be, name, matter · **To what, where:** best answer, side · **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 (it, reasons, you), 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:4
# text = For the open ones, "it depends, and here are my reasons" is often the best answer, as long as you name what matters on each side.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	depends	depend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:csubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
12	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
13	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	reasons	reason	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
17	often	often	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	20	amod	_	_
20	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	as	as	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	_
24	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	name	name	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
27	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	28	nsubj	_	_
28	matters	matter	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	ccomp	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	31	det	_	_
31	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **depend** *in a quote* | present | it |  |  |  |  | for the open ones | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **does** *in a quote* | present | my reasons |  |  | here |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **be** *speech: assert* | present |  | the best answer |  |  |  | long, often *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **name** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **matter** | present |  |  |  | each side |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |

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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): R6-punct-agree ×3, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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