--- title: Taking turns going first is fair when going first gives an advantage. — Thinking cleverly about people · tree and pragmatics description: Taking turns going first is fair when going first gives an advantage. Who acts: turns, Taking, going. A sentence of the lesson «Thinking cleverly about people» 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/60-reasoning-about-people/20/) [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/) / 20 # Thinking cleverly about people, sentence 20 Taking turns going first is fair when going first gives an advantage. **Who acts:** turns, Taking, going · **What happens:** take, go, be, give · **To what, where:** turns, advantage 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 (turns, Taking, going), 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:20 # text = Taking turns going first is fair when going first gives an advantage. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Taking take VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 csubj _ _ 2 turns turn NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 3 going go VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 acl _ _ 4 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 3 advmod _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 10 advmod _ _ 8 going go VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:nsubj 9 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 8 advmod _ _ 10 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 11 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 advantage advantage NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | gerund | | turns | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turn=Theme | | 2 | **go** | gerund | turns *not said here* | | | | | first *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | Taking | | | | | fair *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **go** | gerund | | | | | | first *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **give** | present | going | a advantage | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advantage=Theme | 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: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): R7-rel-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Thinking cleverly about people, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/60-reasoning-about-people/19/) - next →: [Thinking cleverly about people, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/60-reasoning-about-people/21/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/60-reasoning-about-people/)