Fighting fair: no straw men, no moving goalposts, no either-or, sentence 21

Words people use: "rota" (UK) means a list of whose turn it is; "literally" is often used to mean "really, obviously"; "eh" (Canada) means "right?"; "toque" (Canada) means a woolly hat; "bud" (Canada) means mate; "chur" (New Zealand) means thanks, cheers; "y'all" (US South) means you all; "fixin' to" (US South) means about to.

Who acts: people, rota, Canada, toque, bud, chur · What happens: use, mean, be · To what, where: Words, list, fixin, woolly hat, mate, you · 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 (people, rota, Canada, toque), 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	Words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 means	dislocated
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 use	nsubj
3	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Words	acl:relcl
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 rota	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 rota	punct
6	rota	rota	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 means	nsubj
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 rota	punct
8	(	(	PUNCT	_	9 UK	punct
9	UK	UK	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 rota	appos
10	)	)	PUNCT	_	9 UK	punct
11	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 list	det
13	list	list	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 means	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 turn	case
15	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	16 turn	nmod:poss
16	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 list	nmod
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 turn	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 turn	cop
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 used	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 literally	punct
21	literally	literally	ADV	_	25 used	advmod
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 literally	punct
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 used	aux:pass
24	often	often	ADV	_	25 used	advmod
25	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 list	acl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 mean	mark
27	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 used	xcomp
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 really	punct
29	really	really	ADV	_	27 mean	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 obviously	punct
31	obviously	obviously	ADV	_	29 really	advmod
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 really	punct
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 eh	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	35 eh	punct
35	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 means	obj
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	35 eh	punct
37	(	(	PUNCT	_	38 Canada	punct
38	Canada	Canada	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 means	nsubj
39	)	)	PUNCT	_	38 Canada	punct
40	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 means	parataxis
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	42 right	punct
42	right	right	INTJ	_	40 means	discourse
43	?	?	PUNCT	_	42 right	punct
44	"	"	PUNCT	_	42 right	punct
45	;	;	PUNCT	_	47 toque	punct
46	"	"	PUNCT	_	47 toque	punct
47	toque	toque	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 means	nsubj
48	"	"	PUNCT	_	47 toque	punct
49	(	(	PUNCT	_	50 Canada	punct
50	Canada	Canada	PROPN	Number=Sing	52 means	nsubj
51	)	)	PUNCT	_	50 Canada	punct
52	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 means	parataxis
53	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	55 hat	det
54	woolly	woolly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 hat	amod
55	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 means	obj
56	;	;	PUNCT	_	58 bud	punct
57	"	"	PUNCT	_	58 bud	punct
58	bud	bud	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 means	nsubj
59	"	"	PUNCT	_	58 bud	punct
60	(	(	PUNCT	_	61 Canada	punct
61	Canada	Canada	PROPN	Number=Sing	63 means	nsubj
62	)	)	PUNCT	_	61 Canada	punct
63	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	52 means	parataxis
64	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 means	obj
65	;	;	PUNCT	_	73 means	punct
66	"	"	PUNCT	_	67 chur	punct
67	chur	chur	NOUN	Number=Sing	73 means	nsubj
68	"	"	PUNCT	_	67 chur	punct
69	(	(	PUNCT	_	71 Zealand	punct
70	New	New	ADJ	Degree=Pos	71 Zealand	amod
71	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	Number=Sing	67 chur	appos
72	)	)	PUNCT	_	71 Zealand	punct
73	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	52 means	parataxis
74	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	85 means	nsubj
75	,	,	PUNCT	_	76 cheers	punct
76	cheers	cheer	NOUN	Number=Plur	74 thanks	conj
77	;	;	PUNCT	_	79 y'all	punct
78	"	"	PUNCT	_	79 y'all	punct
79	y'all	y'all	NOUN	Number=Sing	74 thanks	parataxis
80	"	"	PUNCT	_	79 y'all	punct
81	(	(	PUNCT	_	82 US	punct
82	US	US	PROPN	Number=Sing	74 thanks	nmod
83	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	82 US	flat
84	)	)	PUNCT	_	83 South	punct
85	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	73 means	ccomp
86	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	85 means	obj
87	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	86 you	nmod:unmarked
88	;	;	PUNCT	_	90 fixin	punct
89	"	"	PUNCT	_	90 fixin	punct
90	fixin	fixin	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 means	obj
91	'	'	PUNCT	_	90 fixin	punct
92	to	to	PART	_	98 means	mark
93	"	"	PUNCT	_	92 to	punct
94	(	(	PUNCT	_	96 South	punct
95	US	US	PROPN	Number=Sing	96 South	compound
96	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	92 to	appos
97	)	)	PUNCT	_	96 South	punct
98	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 means	parataxis
99	about	about	ADV	_	98 means	advmod
100	to	to	PART	_	99 about	fixed
101	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	use	present	people	Words not said here		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient
2	mean	present	rota	a list	Words dislocated	tree rules
3	is	present	rota		of a list's turn	tree rules
4	use	present · passive		a list not said here	literally, often property	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: clause=Eventuality
5	mean	to-infinitive				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
6	mean	present	Canada	fixin		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fixin=Topic
7	mean	present	toque	a woolly hat		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hat=Topic
8	mean	present	bud	mate		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mate=Topic
9	mean	present	chur			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
10	mean	present	thanks US and cheers	you		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Topic
11	mean	present			about property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: 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.

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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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. 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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