--- title: Asking "what do we each mean by the word?" often shows that both sid… — The football argument that goes in circles · tree and pragmatics description: Asking "what do we each mean by the word?" often shows that both sides are right in their own way. Who acts: we, Asking, sides. 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 every clau --- [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/24/) [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/) / 24 # The football argument that goes in circles, sentence 24 Asking "what do we each mean by the word?" often shows that both sides are right in their own way. **Who acts:** we, Asking, sides · **What happens:** ask, mean, show, be · **To what, where:** own way · **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 (we, Asking, sides), 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:24 # text = Asking "what do we each mean by the word?" often shows that both sides are right in their own way. # 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 Asking ask VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 csubj _ _ 2 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct 3 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 7 obj _ _ 4 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 5 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 6 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 7 det _ _ 7 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 ccomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=1:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 by by ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:nmod 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ 12 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 13 often often ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 that that SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 16 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 17 det _ _ 17 sides side NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 18 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 19 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 ccomp _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 22 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **mean** *in a quote* | present · do-support | we | | | | | by the word | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | | 3 | **show** | present | Asking | | | | | often *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | both sides | | | words's own way | | right *property* | tree rules | 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:24`. **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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