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title: Fairness means no favourites; it can mean equal shares, shares by ne… — Olympiad: fair or unfair, chains of reasons and… · tree and pragmatics
description: Fairness means no favourites; it can mean equal shares, shares by need, or shares by effort, and people disagree about which fits best in a given case. Who acts: Fairness, people, need, effort. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: fair or unfair, chains of reasons and dilemmas ★★★» of the religion et
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# Olympiad: fair or unfair, chains of reasons and dilemmas ★★★, sentence 5

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Fairness means no favourites; it can mean equal shares, shares by need, or shares by effort, and people disagree about which fits best in a given case.

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**Who acts:** Fairness, people, need, effort · **What happens:** mean, disagree, fit, give, share · **To what, where:** favourites, equal shares, given case

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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 (Fairness, people, need, effort), 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:5
# text = Fairness means no favourites; it can mean equal shares, shares by need, or shares by effort, and people disagree about which fits best in a given case.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Fairness	fairness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	favourites	favourite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=2:punct
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
9	equal	equal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	shares	share	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	shares	share	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	need	need	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	shares	share	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=12:conj
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	effort	effort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	disagree	disagree	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj
24	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
26	fits	fit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:ccomp
27	best	well	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	26	advmod	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	amod	_	_
31	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **mean** | present | Fairness | no favourites |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent favourite=Topic |
| 2 | **mean** | can | Fairness | equal shares and shares by need or shares by effort |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent share=Topic |
| 3 | **disagree** | present | people |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **fit** | present |  |  |  | a given case |  | well *property* | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent in case=Trajectory |
| 5 | **give** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **share** |  | need |  |  |  |  |  | nom share «possession transitive»: by=agent |
| 7 | **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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