--- title: Changing the target each time someone meets it is moving the goalpos… — The whole class punished, and "you didn't say no" · tree and pragmatics description: Changing the target each time someone meets it is moving the goalposts; fair rules are clear before the race starts. Who acts: someone, Changing, fair rules, race. A sentence of the lesson «The whole class punished, and "you didn't say no"» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its depen --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/168-the-whole-class-punished-and-you-didnt-say-no/21/) [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/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / [The whole class punished, and "you did…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/168-the-whole-class-punished-and-you-didnt-say-no/) / 21 # The whole class punished, and "you didn't say no", sentence 21 Changing the target each time someone meets it is moving the goalposts; fair rules are clear before the race starts. **Who acts:** someone, Changing, fair rules, race · **What happens:** change, meet, move, be, start · **To what, where:** target, threat, goalposts This is a sentence of the lesson «The whole class punished, and "you didn't say no"» of the world 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 (someone, Changing, fair rules, race), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:168-the-whole-class-punished-and-you-didnt-say-no.lesson:21 # text = Changing the target each time someone meets it is moving the goalposts; fair rules are clear before the race starts. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 168-the-whole-class-punished-and-you-didnt-say-no.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 1 Changing change VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 csubj _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 target target NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 5 det _ _ 5 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl:unmarked _ _ 6 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 7 nsubj _ _ 7 meets meet VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 moving move VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 goalposts goalpost NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 14 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 rules rule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 16 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 17 clear clear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 parataxis _ _ 18 before before SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:det 20 race race NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 starts start VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **change** | gerund | | the target | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent target=Patient | | 2 | **meet** | present | someone | threat | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-Agent | | 3 | **move** | present · progressive | Changing | the goalposts | | | time | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent goalpost=Theme | | 4 | **is** | present | fair rules | | | | | clear *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **start** | present | the race | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | 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:world:168-the-whole-class-punished-and-you-didnt-say-no.lesson:21`. **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. **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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