--- title: Kant said you must not lie even to a murderer at the door; most phil… — Olympiad dilemmas: friends, truth and telling · tree and pragmatics description: Kant said you must not lie even to a murderer at the door; most philosophers disagree and say protecting a person comes first; many suggest refusing to answer and getting help. Who acts: Kant, you, most philosophers, protecting. 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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 (Kant, you, most philosophers, protecting), 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:6 # text = Kant said you must not lie even to a murderer at the door; most philosophers disagree and say protecting a person comes first; many suggest refusing to answer and getting help. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Kant Kant PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 4 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 6 lie lie VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 ccomp _ _ 7 even even ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 murderer murderer NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:obj 11 at at ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 16 amod _ _ 16 philosophers philosopher NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 disagree disagree VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 20 protecting protect VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 23 csubj _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 ccomp _ _ 24 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 23 advmod _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 nsubj _ _ 27 suggest suggest VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 28 refusing refuse VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 27 xcomp _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 answer answer VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 getting get VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 28 conj _ _ 33 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Kant | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **not** **lie** | must | you | | | | | to a murderer at the door | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **disagree** | present | most philosophers | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | most philosophers *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **protect** | gerund | | | a person | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Beneficiary | | 6 | **come** | present | protecting | | | | | first *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **suggest** *speech: suggest* | present | many | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 8 | **refuse** | gerund | many *not said here* | | | | | | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 9 | **not** **answer** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | many *not said here* | | | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 10 | **get** | gerund | many *not said here* | help | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer help=Stimulus | 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:6`. **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, 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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