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title: "That's not fair!" is the most shouted sentence in any playground, a… — Olympiad: fair or unfair, chains of reasons and… · tree and pragmatics
description: "That's not fair!" is the most shouted sentence in any playground, and an olympiad asks you to test it: fair can mean equal shares, shares by need or shares by effort, and the right one depends on the situation. Who acts: That, olympiad, fair, right one. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: fair or u
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# Olympiad: fair or unfair, chains of reasons and dilemmas ★★★, sentence 0

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"That's not fair!" is the most shouted sentence in any playground, and an olympiad asks you to test it: fair can mean equal shares, shares by need or shares by effort, and the right one depends on the situation.

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**Who acts:** That, olympiad, fair, right one, effort · **What happens:** not be, shout, be, ask, test, mean · **To what, where:** shouted sentence, playground, you, olympiad, equal shares · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: fair or unfair, chains of reasons and dilemmas ★★★» of the religion ethics 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 (That, olympiad, fair, right one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:103-olympiad-fair-or-unfair-chains-of-reasons-and-dilemmas.lesson:0
# text = "That's not fair!" is the most shouted sentence in any playground, and an olympiad asks you to test it: fair can mean equal shares, shares by need or shares by effort, and the right one depends on the situation.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 103-olympiad-fair-or-unfair-chains-of-reasons-and-dilemmas.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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
2	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
3	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:nsubj
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	11	advmod	_	_
11	shouted	shout	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	_
12	sentence	sentence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
15	playground	playground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	olympiad	olympiad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	test	test	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
26	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	nsubj	_	_
27	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	mean	mean	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	20	parataxis	_	_
29	equal	equal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	shares	share	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	shares	share	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	conj	_	_
33	by	by	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	need	need	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
35	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	shares	share	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	conj	_	_
37	by	by	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	effort	effort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
44	depends	depend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:conj
45	on	on	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	situation	situation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | That |  |  |  |  | fair *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **shout** *speech: express* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | the shouted sentence |  | any playground |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | a olympiad |  | you |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **test** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a olympiad *not said here* | olympiad |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 6 | **mean** | can | fair | equal shares and shares |  |  |  | by need or shares by effort | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent share=Topic |
| 7 | **depend** | present | the right one |  |  |  |  | on the situation | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent on situation=Theme |
| 8 | **share** |  | effort |  |  |  |  |  | nom share «possession transitive»: by=agent |

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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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**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, 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.

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