Fighting fair: no straw men, no moving goalposts, no either-or, sentence 13
Moving the goalposts means changing what counts as proof each time the test is met.
Who acts: Moving, time · What happens: move, mean, change, count, meet · To what, where: goalposts, test · 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 (Moving, time), 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 | Moving | move | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 means | csubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 goalposts | det |
| 3 | goalposts | goalpost | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Moving | obj |
| 4 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | changing | change | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 means | ccomp |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 counts | nsubj |
| 7 | counts | count | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 changing | ccomp |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 proof | case |
| 9 | proof | proof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 counts | obl |
| 10 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 time | det |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 counts | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 test | det |
| 13 | test | test | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 met | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 met | aux:pass |
| 15 | met | meet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 time | acl:relcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | gerund | the goalposts | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent goalpost=Theme | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | Moving | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | change | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | count | present | time | as proof | vn masquerade-29.6 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as proof=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | meet | present · passive | each time not said here | the test | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-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:13.
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 ×3, 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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