--- title: Fair does not always mean everyone gets exactly the same; fair means… — Thinking cleverly about people · tree and pragmatics description: Fair does not always mean everyone gets exactly the same; fair means everyone gets what they need to have a real chance, like glasses for a child who cannot see the board. Who acts: Fair, everyone, People, child. A sentence of the lesson «Thinking cleverly about people» of the everyday course of Mov --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/60-reasoning-about-people/1/) [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/) / [Thinking cleverly about people](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/60-reasoning-about-people/) / 1 # Thinking cleverly about people, sentence 1 Fair does not always mean everyone gets exactly the same; fair means everyone gets what they need to have a real chance, like glasses for a child who cannot see the board. **Who acts:** Fair, everyone, People, child · **What happens:** not mean, get, mean, need, have, not see · **To what, where:** same, real chance, board · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Thinking cleverly about people» 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 (Fair, everyone, People, child), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:060-reasoning-about-people.lesson:1 # text = Fair does not always mean everyone gets exactly the same; fair means everyone gets what they need to have a real chance, like glasses for a child who cannot see the board. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 060-reasoning-about-people.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 Fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 nsubj _ _ 2 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 4 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 5 advmod _ _ 5 mean mean VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 7 nsubj _ _ 7 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 ccomp _ _ 8 exactly exactly ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:advmod 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 obj _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 nsubj _ _ 13 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 14 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 15 nsubj _ _ 15 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 ccomp _ _ 16 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 15 obj _ _ 17 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 xcomp _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 chance chance NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 like like ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 glasses glass NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 27 for for ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 30 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 33 nsubj _ _ 31 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 32 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 33 advmod _ _ 33 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 acl:relcl _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 board board NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **mean** | present · do-support | Fair | | | | | always *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 | fair | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **get** | present | everyone | | | | | | 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 clause=Theme | | 6 | **have** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | People *not said here* | a real chance | | | | like glasses for a child | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Patient | | 7 | **not** **see** | can | a child | the board | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer board=Stimulus | 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:060-reasoning-about-people.lesson:1`. **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/). - ← previous: [Thinking cleverly about people, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/60-reasoning-about-people/0/) - next →: [Thinking cleverly about people, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/60-reasoning-about-people/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/60-reasoning-about-people/)