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title: A fair turn-taking system gives everyone a go, the same length of ti… — Sharing and fairness · tree and pragmatics
description: A fair turn-taking system gives everyone a go, the same length of time, and is known to everyone before it starts. Who acts: fair turn taking system, system. A sentence of the lesson «Sharing and fairness» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Sharing and fairness, sentence 11

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A fair turn-taking system gives everyone a go, the same length of time, and is known to everyone before it starts.

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**Who acts:** fair turn taking system, system · **What happens:** give, know, start · **To what, where:** go, everyone

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Sharing and fairness» 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 (fair turn taking system, system), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:043-sharing-and-fairness.lesson:11
# text = A fair turn-taking system gives everyone a go, the same length of time, and is known to everyone before it starts.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 043-sharing-and-fairness.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 ×2
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:det
2	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:amod
3	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	_
5	taking	taking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	system	system	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	7	iobj	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	go	go	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	20	obl	_	_
23	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	starts	start	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present | a fair turn taking system | a go and the same length of time | everyone |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent everyone=Recipient go=Theme |
| 2 | **know** | present · passive | a fair turn taking system *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to everyone | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V» |
| 3 | **start** | present | system |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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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**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:religion-ethics:043-sharing-and-fairness.lesson:11`.

**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 ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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