Fighting fair: no straw men, no moving goalposts, no either-or, sentence 1
Three unfair moves turn up in every family, classroom and playground.
Who acts: Three unfair moves · What happens: turn up · To what, where: family
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 (Three unfair moves), 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 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 moves | nummod |
| 2 | unfair | unfair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 moves | amod |
| 3 | moves | move | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 turn | nsubj |
| 4 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 turn | compound:prt |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 family | case |
| 7 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 family | det |
| 8 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 turn | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 classroom | punct |
| 10 | classroom | classroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 family | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 playground | cc |
| 12 | playground | playground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 family | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 turn | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn up | present | Three unfair moves | every family and classroom and playground | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in family=Location |
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: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): 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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