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title: Three unfair moves turn up in every family, classroom and playground. — Fighting fair: no straw men, no moving goalposts… · tree and pragmatics
description: Three unfair moves turn up in every family, classroom and playground. Who acts: Three unfair moves. A sentence of the lesson «Fighting fair: no straw men, no moving goalposts, no either-or» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fighting fair: no straw men, no moving goalposts, no either-or, sentence 1

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Three unfair moves turn up in every family, classroom and playground.

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**Who acts:** Three unfair moves · **What happens:** turn up · **To what, where:** family

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Fighting fair: no straw men, no moving goalposts, no either-or» 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 (Three unfair moves), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:189-fighting-fair-no-straw-men-no-moving-goalposts-no-either-or.lesson:1
# text = Three unfair moves turn up in every family, classroom and playground.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 189-fighting-fair-no-straw-men-no-moving-goalposts-no-either-or.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	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	unfair	unfair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	moves	move	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	turn	turn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	classroom	classroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	playground	playground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn up** | present | Three unfair moves |  |  | every family and classroom and playground |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in family=Location |

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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:189-fighting-fair-no-straw-men-no-moving-goalposts-no-either-or.lesson:1`.

**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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