Thinking cleverly about people, sentence 1

Fair does not always mean everyone gets exactly the same; fair means everyone gets what they need to have a real chance, like glasses for a child who cannot see the board.

Who acts: Fair, everyone, People, child · What happens: not mean, get, mean, need, have, not see · To what, where: same, real chance, board · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Thinking cleverly about people» of the everyday 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 (Fair, everyone, People, child), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 mean	nsubj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 mean	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 mean	advmod
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 mean	advmod
5	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	7 gets	nsubj
7	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 mean	ccomp
8	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	10 same	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 same	det
10	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 gets	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 means	punct
12	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 means	nsubj
13	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 gets	parataxis
14	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	15 gets	nsubj
15	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 means	ccomp
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 gets	obj
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 need	nsubj
18	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 what	acl:relcl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 have	mark
20	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 need	xcomp
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 chance	det
22	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 chance	amod
23	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 have	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 glasses	punct
25	like	like	ADP	_	26 glasses	case
26	glasses	glass	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 have	obl
27	for	for	ADP	_	29 child	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 child	det
29	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 glasses	nmod
30	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 see	nsubj
31	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 see	aux
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 see	advmod
33	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 child	acl:relcl
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 board	det
35	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 see	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 mean	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not mean	present · do-support	Fair		always property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	get	present	everyone	the same		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer same=Stimulus
3	mean	present	fair			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	get	present	everyone			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
5	need	present	People			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	have not said to happen	to-infinitive	People not said here	a real chance	like glasses for a child	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Patient
7	not see	can	a child	the board		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer board=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, 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:everyday:060-reasoning-about-people.lesson:1.

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.

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