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title: If you don't agree what the word means, you can argue all day and no… — The football argument that goes in circles · tree and pragmatics
description: If you don't agree what the word means, you can argue all day and nobody can win. Who acts: you, word, nobody. 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 clause.
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# The football argument that goes in circles, sentence 7

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If you don't agree what the word means, you can argue all day and nobody can win.

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**Who acts:** you, word, nobody · **What happens:** not agree, mean, argue, win

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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, word, 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:7
# text = If you don't agree what the word means, you can argue all day and nobody can win.
# 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	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	agree	agree	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
6	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	argue	argue	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	19	nsubj	_	_
18	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	win	win	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **agree** *speech: agree* *a condition, not said to happen* | present · do-support | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
| 2 | **mean** | present | the word |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | can | you |  |  |  | day |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **win** | can | nobody |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**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:7`.

**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/).

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