--- title: Moving the goalposts means changing what counts as proof each time t… — Fighting fair: no straw men, no moving goalposts… · tree and pragmatics description: Moving the goalposts means changing what counts as proof each time the test is met. Who acts: Moving, time. 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 clau --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/189-fighting-fair-no-straw-men-no-moving-goalposts-no-either-or/13/) [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/) / [Fighting fair: no straw men, no moving…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/189-fighting-fair-no-straw-men-no-moving-goalposts-no-either-or/) / 13 # Fighting fair: no straw men, no moving goalposts, no either-or, sentence 13 Moving the goalposts means changing what counts as proof each time the test is met. **Who acts:** Moving, time · **What happens:** move, mean, change, count, meet · **To what, where:** goalposts, test · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Moving, time), 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:13 # text = Moving the goalposts means changing what counts as proof each time the test is met. # 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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Moving move VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 csubj _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 goalposts goalpost NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 4 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 changing change VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 ccomp _ _ 6 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 7 nsubj _ _ 7 counts count VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:obj 8 as as ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 proof proof NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:obl 10 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 11 det _ _ 11 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:obl:unmarked 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 test test NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj:pass _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux:pass _ _ 15 met meet VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:advcl 16 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **move** | gerund | | the goalposts | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent goalpost=Theme | | 2 | **mean** | present | Moving | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **change** | gerund | | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **count** | present | | | | | time | as proof | vn masquerade-29.6 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as proof=Attribute | | 5 | **meet** | present · passive | each time *not said here* | the test | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-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:13`. **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 ×3, 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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