Fighting fair: no straw men, no moving goalposts, no either-or, sentence 6
Moving the goalposts: every time the test is met, demand a harder one.
Who acts: time · What happens: move, meet, demand · To what, where: goalposts, test, harder one
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 (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 | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 goalposts | det |
| 3 | goalposts | goalpost | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Moving | obj |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 demand | punct |
| 5 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 time | det |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 demand | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 test | det |
| 8 | test | test | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 met | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 met | aux:pass |
| 10 | met | meet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 time | acl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 time | punct |
| 12 | demand | demand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Moving | parataxis |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 one | det |
| 14 | harder | hard | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 one | amod |
| 15 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 demand | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Moving | 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 | meet | present · passive | every time not said here | the test | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | demand speech: request | infinitive | a harder one | time | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme one=Precondition |
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:6.
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): 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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