--- title: Flipping a coin is a fair way to decide when both choices are equall… — Solving disagreements calmly · tree and pragmatics description: Flipping a coin is a fair way to decide when both choices are equally good. Who acts: Flipping, choices. A sentence of the lesson «Solving disagreements calmly» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/54-solving-disagreements-calmly/17/) [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/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Solving disagreements calmly](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/54-solving-disagreements-calmly/) / 17 # Solving disagreements calmly, sentence 17 Flipping a coin is a fair way to decide when both choices are equally good. **Who acts:** Flipping, choices · **What happens:** flip, be, decide · **To what, where:** coin, fair way This is a sentence of the lesson «Solving disagreements calmly» 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 (Flipping, choices), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:054-solving-disagreements-calmly.lesson:17 # text = Flipping a coin is a fair way to decide when both choices are equally good. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 054-solving-disagreements-calmly.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): no change 1 Flipping flip VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 csubj _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 coin coin NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 decide decide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 acl _ _ 10 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 15 advmod _ _ 11 both both DET DT _ 12 det _ _ 12 choices choice NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 13 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 14 equally equally ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 advcl _ _ 16 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **flip** | gerund | | a coin | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coin=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | present | Flipping | a fair way | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **decide** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | both choices | | | | | equally, good *property* | tree rules | 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:everyday:054-solving-disagreements-calmly.lesson:17`. **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): no change. **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/). - ← previous: [Solving disagreements calmly, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/54-solving-disagreements-calmly/16/) - next →: [Solving disagreements calmly, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/54-solving-disagreements-calmly/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/54-solving-disagreements-calmly/)