--- title: Sometimes fair means everyone gets the same, and sometimes it means… — Neighbours, the council, rules and fairness · tree and pragmatics description: Sometimes fair means everyone gets the same, and sometimes it means people get what they need. Who acts: fair, everyone, it, people. A sentence of the lesson «Neighbours, the council, rules and fairness» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/33-neighbours-the-council-rules-and-fairness/18/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/) / [Neighbours, the council, rules and fai…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/33-neighbours-the-council-rules-and-fairness/) / 18 # Neighbours, the council, rules and fairness, sentence 18 Sometimes fair means everyone gets the same, and sometimes it means people get what they need. **Who acts:** fair, everyone, it, people · **What happens:** mean, get, need · **To what, where:** same · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Neighbours, the council, rules and fairness» of the adult life 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, everyone, it, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:033-neighbours-the-council-rules-and-fairness.lesson:18 # text = Sometimes fair means everyone gets the same, and sometimes it means people get what they need. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 033-neighbours-the-council-rules-and-fairness.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 3 advmod _ _ 2 fair fair NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 5 nsubj _ _ 5 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 10 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 12 advmod _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 13 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 14 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 ccomp _ _ 15 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 14 obj _ _ 16 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 18 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | fair | | | | | sometimes *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **get** | present | everyone | the same | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer same=Stimulus | | 3 | **mean** | present | it | | | | | sometimes *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **get** | present | people | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | | 5 | **need** | present | people | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:adult-life:033-neighbours-the-council-rules-and-fairness.lesson:18`. **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): R6-punct-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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