Fighting fair: no straw men, no moving goalposts, no either-or, sentence 11
Arguing fairly means repeating what the other person really said, then saying why you disagree.
Who acts: Arguing, other person, you · What happens: argue, mean, repeat, say, disagree · Speech: someone speaks here
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, other person, you), 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 means | csubj |
| 2 | fairly | fairly | ADV | _ | 1 Arguing | advmod |
| 3 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | repeating | repeat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 means | xcomp |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 repeating | obj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 person | det |
| 7 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 person | amod |
| 8 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 9 | really | really | ADV | _ | 10 said | advmod |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 what | acl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 saying | punct |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 saying | advmod |
| 13 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 repeating | conj |
| 14 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 disagree | advmod |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 disagree | nsubj |
| 16 | disagree | disagree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 saying | ccomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 means | 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 | fairly property | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | Arguing | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | repeat not said to happen | gerund | Arguing not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the other person | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | gerund | Arguing not said here | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | disagree | present | you | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:11.
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 ×2. 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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