Fighting fair: no straw men, no moving goalposts, no either-or, sentence 18

A fair reply answers the real point; for school uniforms, one real point on the other side is that uniforms can be expensive for some families.

Who acts: fair reply, uniforms · What happens: answer, be · To what, where: real point, one real point, other side

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 (fair reply, uniforms), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 reply	det
2	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 reply	amod
3	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 answers	nsubj
4	answers	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 point	det
6	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 point	amod
7	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 answers	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 uniforms	punct
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 uniforms	case
10	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 uniforms	compound
11	uniforms	uniform	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 answers	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 point	punct
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 point	nummod
14	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 point	amod
15	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 answers	conj
16	on	on	ADP	_	19 side	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 side	det
18	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 side	amod
19	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 point	nmod
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 point	cop
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 expensive	mark
22	uniforms	uniform	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 expensive	nsubj
23	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 expensive	aux
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 expensive	cop
25	expensive	expensive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 point	ccomp
26	for	for	ADP	_	28 families	case
27	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	28 families	det
28	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 expensive	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 answers	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	present	a fair reply	the real point		for school uniforms	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent point=Eventuality
2	is a	present	a fair reply not said here	one real point	the other side		tree rules
3	is	can	uniforms			for some families; expensive property	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:18.

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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