Fighting fair: no straw men, no moving goalposts, no either-or, sentence 7
Kai wants a photo of a ghost, then a video, then "real life"; Ruby changes the hide-and-seek rules every time she loses until there's no hiding at all.
Who acts: Kai, Ruby, hiding · What happens: want, change, lose, be · To what, where: photo, hide seek rules, time, all
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 (Kai, Ruby, hiding), 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 | Kai | Kai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 wants | nsubj |
| 2 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 photo | det |
| 4 | photo | photo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wants | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 ghost | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 ghost | det |
| 7 | ghost | ghost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 photo | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 video | punct |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 video | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 video | det |
| 11 | video | video | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 photo | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 life | punct |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 life | advmod |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 life | punct |
| 15 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 life | amod |
| 16 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 video | conj |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 life | punct |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 changes | punct |
| 19 | Ruby | Ruby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 changes | nsubj |
| 20 | changes | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 wants | parataxis |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 rules | det |
| 22 | hide | hide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 rules | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 rules | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 rules | cc |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 and | punct |
| 26 | seek | seek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 rules | compound |
| 27 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 changes | obj |
| 28 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 time | det |
| 29 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 changes | obl:unmarked |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 loses | nsubj |
| 31 | loses | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 time | acl:relcl |
| 32 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 34 's | mark |
| 33 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 34 's | expl |
| 34 | 's | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 loses | advcl |
| 35 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 36 hiding | det |
| 36 | hiding | hiding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 's | nsubj |
| 37 | at | at | ADP | _ | 38 all | case |
| 38 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 34 's | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wants | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | Kai | a photo of a ghost and a video and real life | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot photo=Theme | ||||
| 2 | change | present | Ruby | the hide seek rules | time | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Patient | |||
| 3 | lose | present | Ruby | every time not said here | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent time=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | be | present | no hiding | all; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Location |
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:7.
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 ×4, 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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