--- title: Agree what would change your mind before you argue; blurry photos an… — Fighting fair: no straw men, no moving goalposts… · tree and pragmatics description: Agree what would change your mind before you argue; blurry photos and videos are easy to fake, so a good test is one that others can repeat. Who acts: you, blurry photos, good test, others. 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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 (you, blurry photos, good test, others), 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:14 # text = Agree what would change your mind before you argue; blurry photos and videos are easy to fake, so a good test is one that others can repeat. # 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 Agree agree VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 4 nsubj _ _ 3 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 change change VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 ccomp _ _ 5 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 mind mind NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 before before SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 8 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 argue argue VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 11 blurry blurry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 photos photo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 videos video NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ _ 15 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 16 easy easy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 parataxis _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 fake fake VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 xcomp _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 20 so so ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 test test NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 25 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 1 parataxis _ _ 26 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 29 obj _ _ 27 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 28 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 repeat repeat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 acl:relcl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **agree** *speech: agree* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **change** | would | | your mind | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient | | 3 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present | you | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | blurry photos and videos | | | | | easy *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **fake** | to-infinitive | blurry photos and videos *not said here* | | | | | | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is a** | present | a good test | one | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **repeat** | can | others | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | | 8 | **mind** | | your | | | | | | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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:14`. **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. 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