Fighting fair: no straw men, no moving goalposts, no either-or, sentence 14

Agree what would change your mind before you argue; blurry photos and videos are easy to fake, so a good test is one that others can repeat.

Who acts: you, blurry photos, good test, others, your · What happens: agree, change, argue, be, fake, repeat · To what, where: mind, one · 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 (you, blurry photos, good test, others), 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	Agree	agree	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 change	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 change	aux
4	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Agree	ccomp
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 mind	nmod:poss
6	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 change	obj
7	before	before	SCONJ	_	9 argue	mark
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 argue	nsubj
9	argue	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 change	advcl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 easy	punct
11	blurry	blurry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 photos	amod
12	photos	photo	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 easy	nsubj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 videos	cc
14	videos	video	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 photos	conj
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 easy	cop
16	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Agree	parataxis
17	to	to	PART	_	18 fake	mark
18	fake	fake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 easy	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 repeat	punct
20	so	so	ADV	_	25 one	advmod
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 test	det
22	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 test	amod
23	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 one	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 one	cop
25	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Agree	parataxis
26	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 repeat	obj
27	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 repeat	nsubj
28	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 repeat	aux
29	repeat	repeat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 one	acl:relcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Agree	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	imperative	you not said here			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	change	would		your mind		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient
3	argue speech: disagree	present	you			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	blurry photos and videos		easy property	tree rules
5	fake	to-infinitive	blurry photos and videos not said here			vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	is a	present	a good test	one		tree rules
7	repeat	can	others			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality
8	mind		your			nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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:14.

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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