Fighting fair: no straw men, no moving goalposts, no either-or, sentence 0
Arguing is fine; arguing unfairly is the problem.
Who acts: arguing · What happens: argue, be · To what, where: problem
This is a sentence of the lesson «Fighting fair: no straw men, no moving goalposts, no either-or» of the world 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 (arguing), 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 | Arguing | argue | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 fine | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fine | cop |
| 3 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 arguing | punct |
| 5 | arguing | argue | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 problem | csubj |
| 6 | unfairly | unfairly | ADV | _ | 5 arguing | advmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 problem | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 problem | det |
| 9 | problem | problem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fine | parataxis |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fine | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | argue speech: disagree | gerund | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is | present | fine property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | argue speech: disagree | gerund | unfairly property | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | arguing | the problem | tree rules |
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:world:189-fighting-fair-no-straw-men-no-moving-goalposts-no-either-or.lesson:0.
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 ×2, R8-pos-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.
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