Fighting fair: no straw men, no moving goalposts, no either-or, sentence 9

Fair fighting is simple: say back what the other person really said ("Do you mean...?"), agree what would change your mind before you start, and look for the middle options.

Who acts: Fair fighting, other person, you, your · What happens: be, say back, say, mean, agree, change · To what, where: mind · 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 (Fair fighting, other person, you, your), 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	Fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 fighting	amod
2	fighting	fighting	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 simple	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 simple	cop
4	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 simple	parataxis
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 say	advmod
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 said	obj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 person	det
10	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 person	amod
11	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
12	really	really	ADV	_	13 said	advmod
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 say	ccomp
14	(	(	PUNCT	_	18 mean	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 mean	punct
16	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 mean	aux
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 mean	nsubj
18	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
19	...	...	PUNCT	_	18 mean	punct
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	18 mean	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 mean	punct
22	)	)	PUNCT	_	18 mean	punct
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 agree	punct
24	agree	agree	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 say	conj
25	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	27 change	obj
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 change	aux
27	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 agree	ccomp
28	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 mind	nmod:poss
29	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 change	obj
30	before	before	SCONJ	_	32 start	mark
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 start	nsubj
32	start	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 change	advcl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 look	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 look	cc
35	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 say	conj
36	for	for	ADP	_	39 options	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 options	det
38	middle	middle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 options	amod
39	options	option	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 look	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 simple	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	Fair fighting		simple property	tree rules
2	say back speech: assert	infinitive				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	say speech: ask	past	the other person			tree rules
4	mean in a quote	present · do-support	you			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
5	agree speech: agree	infinitive				vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	change	would		your mind		tree rules
7	start	present	you			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
8	look	infinitive			for the middle options	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for option=Theme
9	mind		your			nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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:9.

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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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