--- title: Arguing fairly means repeating what the other person really said, th… — Fighting fair: no straw men, no moving goalposts… · tree and pragmatics description: Arguing fairly means repeating what the other person really said, then saying why you disagree. Who acts: Arguing, other person, you. 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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 (Arguing, other person, you), 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:11 # text = Arguing fairly means repeating what the other person really said, then saying why you disagree. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Arguing argue VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj 2 fairly fairly ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:advmod 3 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 repeating repeat VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:ccomp 5 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 4 obj _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 9 really really ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 13 advmod _ _ 13 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 conj _ _ 14 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 16 advmod _ _ 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 disagree disagree VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 ccomp _ _ 17 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | gerund | | | | | | fairly *property* | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **mean** | present | Arguing | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **repeat** *not said to happen* | gerund | Arguing *not said here* | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the other person | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Arguing *not said here* | | | | then | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **disagree** | present | you | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:189-fighting-fair-no-straw-men-no-moving-goalposts-no-either-or.lesson:11`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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