--- title: If you only count wins, every team in the world "always wins"; a fai… — The football argument that goes in circles · tree and pragmatics description: If you only count wins, every team in the world "always wins"; a fair count includes wins and losses. Who acts: you, team, fair count. A sentence of the lesson «The football argument that goes in circles» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/170-the-football-argument-that-goes-in-circles/15/) [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 football argument that goes in cir…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/170-the-football-argument-that-goes-in-circles/) / 15 # The football argument that goes in circles, sentence 15 If you only count wins, every team in the world "always wins"; a fair count includes wins and losses. **Who acts:** you, team, fair count · **What happens:** count, win, include · **To what, where:** wins · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «The football argument that goes in circles» 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 (you, team, fair count), 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:15 # text = If you only count wins, every team in the world "always wins"; a fair count includes wins and losses. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 only only ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 count count VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 5 wins win NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 7 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 8 det _ _ 8 team team NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 " " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 13 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 14 advmod _ _ 14 wins win VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 " " PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 count count NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 includes include VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:conj 21 wins win NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 losses loss NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 conj _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **count** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | wins | | | | | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent win=Theme | | 2 | **win** *in a quote* | present | every team in the world | | | | | always *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **include** | present | a fair count | wins and losses | | | | | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent win=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:15`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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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