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title: A rule that only ever helps the strongest player is not a fair rule. — Whose turn is it? · tree and pragmatics
description: A rule that only ever helps the strongest player is not a fair rule. Who acts: rule. A sentence of the lesson «Whose turn is it?» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Whose turn is it?, sentence 20

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A rule that only ever helps the strongest player is not a fair rule.

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**Who acts:** rule · **What happens:** help, not be · **To what, where:** strongest player, fair rule

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Whose turn is it?» of the everyday 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 (rule), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:397-whose-turn-is-it.lesson:20
# text = A rule that only ever helps the strongest player is not a fair rule.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 397-whose-turn-is-it.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): R5-strong ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:advmod
5	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	6	advmod	_	_
6	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	strongest	strong	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	9	amod	_	_
9	player	player	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | present | a rule | the strongest player |  |  | ever |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent player=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **not** **is a** | present | a rule | a fair rule |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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**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:everyday:397-whose-turn-is-it.lesson:20`.

**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. **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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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