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title: Fairness means no favourites; it does not always mean everyone gets… — Virtues: honesty, fairness and kindness · tree and pragmatics
description: Fairness means no favourites; it does not always mean everyone gets the same: equality gives everyone the same, while equity gives each person what they need to have the same chance, like glasses for the child who cannot see the board. Who acts: Fairness, it, everyone, equality. A sentence of the le
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# Virtues: honesty, fairness and kindness, sentence 2

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Fairness means no favourites; it does not always mean everyone gets the same: equality gives everyone the same, while equity gives each person what they need to have the same chance, like glasses for the child who cannot see the board.

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**Who acts:** Fairness, it, everyone, equality, equity, favourites · **What happens:** mean, not mean, get, give, need, have · **To what, where:** favourites, same, everyone, person, same chance, board · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Virtues: honesty, fairness and kindness» 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, it, everyone, equality), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:034-honesty-fairness-and-kindness.lesson:2
# text = Fairness means no favourites; it does not always mean everyone gets the same: equality gives everyone the same, while equity gives each person what they need to have the same chance, like glasses for the child who cannot see the board.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 034-honesty-fairness-and-kindness.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 ×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	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
7	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
9	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	10	advmod	_	_
10	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
11	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	12	nsubj	_	_
12	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	obj	_	_
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
16	equality	equality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
18	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	17	iobj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:obj
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:amod
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	equity	equity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
25	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	det	_	_
26	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	iobj	_	_
27	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	29	obj	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	like	like	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	glasses	glass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	_
38	for	for	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
41	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	44	nsubj	_	_
42	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
43	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	44	advmod	_	_
44	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	acl:relcl	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	board	board	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## 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 | **not** **mean** | present · do-support | it |  |  |  |  | always *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **get** | present | everyone | the same |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer same=Stimulus |
| 4 | **give** | present | equality | the same | everyone |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent everyone=Recipient same=Theme |
| 5 | **give** | present | equity |  | each person |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Theme |
| 6 | **need** | present | favourites *= favourite* | each person |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **have** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | each person *not said here* | the same chance |  |  |  | like glasses for the child | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Patient |
| 8 | **not** **see** | can | the child | the board |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer board=Stimulus |

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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 ×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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