--- title: Throwing out the results that go against you, or inventing a rule af… — The football argument that goes in circles · tree and pragmatics description: Throwing out the results that go against you, or inventing a rule after you lose, is moving the goalposts. Who acts: results, you, Throwing. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (results, you, Throwing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:170-the-football-argument-that-goes-in-circles.lesson:14 # text = Throwing out the results that go against you, or inventing a rule after you lose, is moving the goalposts. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 170-the-football-argument-that-goes-in-circles.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): no change 1 Throwing throw VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 csubj _ _ 2 out out ADP RP _ 1 compound:prt _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 results result NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 5 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 6 nsubj _ _ 6 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 7 against against ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 6 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 or or CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 inventing invent VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 conj _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 rule rule NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 after after SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 lose lose VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 moving move VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 goalposts goalpost NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=neg | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **throw out** | gerund | | the results | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent result=Theme | | 2 | **go** | present | the results | | | | | against you | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme against you=Location | | 3 | **invent** | gerund | | a rule | | | | | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Result | | 4 | **lose** | present | you | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **move** | present · progressive | Throwing | the goalposts | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent goalpost=Theme | 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:170-the-football-argument-that-goes-in-circles.lesson:14`. **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): no change. **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/). - ← previous: [The football argument that goes in cir…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/170-the-football-argument-that-goes-in-circles/13/) - next →: [The football argument that goes in cir…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/170-the-football-argument-that-goes-in-circles/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/170-the-football-argument-that-goes-in-circles/)