--- title: You can criticise a thing without attacking a person: "the pizza cou… — Fighting fair: no straw men, no moving goalposts… · tree and pragmatics description: You can criticise a thing without attacking a person: "the pizza could be hotter" is not "your mum's a bad cook". Who acts: You, pizza, mum. 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 --- [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/16/) [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/) / 16 # Fighting fair: no straw men, no moving goalposts, no either-or, sentence 16 You can criticise a thing without attacking a person: "the pizza could be hotter" is not "your mum's a bad cook". **Who acts:** You, pizza, mum · **What happens:** criticise, attack, be · **To what, where:** thing, person, bad cook · **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 (You, pizza, mum), 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:16 # text = You can criticise a thing without attacking a person: "the pizza could be hotter" is not "your mum's a bad cook". # 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): R6-punct-agree ×2 1 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 criticise criticise VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 without without SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 7 attacking attack VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 11 " " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 pizza pizza NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 14 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 15 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 16 cop _ _ 16 hotter hotter ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 parataxis _ _ 17 " " PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 19 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 conj _ _ 20 " " PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 21 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 23 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 cook cook NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 27 " " PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ _ 28 . . 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 | **criticise** | can | You | a thing | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **attack** | gerund | You *not said here* | a person | | | | | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Patient | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | could | the pizza | | | | | hotter *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | your mum | a bad cook | | | | | tree rules | 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:16`. **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): R6-punct-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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