--- title: Saying something louder does not make it truer; if nobody saw clearl… — The football argument that goes in circles · tree and pragmatics description: Saying something louder does not make it truer; if nobody saw clearly, agree a fair way to settle it, like a replay or a coin toss. Who acts: Saying, nobody. 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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 (Saying, nobody), 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:16 # text = Saying something louder does not make it truer; if nobody saw clearly, agree a fair way to settle it, like a replay or a coin toss. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Saying say VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 csubj _ _ 2 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 1 obj _ _ 3 louder loud ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 2 amod _ _ 4 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 6 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ _ 8 truer true ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 6 xcomp _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 if if SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 11 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 12 nsubj _ _ 12 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ _ 13 clearly clearly ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 agree agree VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 settle settle VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 acl _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 like like ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 replay replay NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 26 or or CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 coin coin NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 toss toss NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | | something | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent something=Topic | | 2 | **not** **make** | present · do-support | Saying | count | | | | true *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | | 3 | **see** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | nobody | | | | | clearly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **agree** *speech: agree* | infinitive | | a fair way | | | | like a replay or a coin toss | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent way=Topic | | 5 | **settle** | to-infinitive | | count | | | | | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme it=Location | 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:16`. **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): R7-rel-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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