Fighting fair: no straw men, no moving goalposts, no either-or, sentence 20
Agree the rules of a game before it starts; if you want a change, it starts next game.
Who acts: you, game · What happens: agree, start, want, rule · To what, where: rules, change, next game
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, game), 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 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 rules | det |
| 3 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Agree | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 game | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 game | det |
| 6 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rules | nmod |
| 7 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 9 starts | mark |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 starts | nsubj |
| 9 | starts | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Agree | advcl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 starts | punct |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 want | mark |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 want | nsubj |
| 13 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 starts | advcl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 change | det |
| 15 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 want | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 want | punct |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 starts | nsubj |
| 18 | starts | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Agree | parataxis |
| 19 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 game | amod |
| 20 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 starts | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Agree | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | imperative | you not said here | the rules of a game | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent rule=Topic | ||||
| 2 | start | present | game | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | want a condition, not said to happen | present | you | a change | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot change=Theme | ||||
| 4 | start | present | game | next game | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | rule | a game | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: of=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:20.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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.
See the release 0.4.
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