--- title: A fair reply answers the real point; for school uniforms, one real p… — Fighting fair: no straw men, no moving goalposts… · tree and pragmatics description: A fair reply answers the real point; for school uniforms, one real point on the other side is that uniforms can be expensive for some families. Who acts: fair reply, uniforms. 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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 (fair reply, uniforms), 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:18 # text = A fair reply answers the real point; for school uniforms, one real point on the other side is that uniforms can be expensive for some families. # 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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 reply reply NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 answers answer VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 point point NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 9 for for ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 uniforms uniform NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 14 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 point point NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 16 on on ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 21 that that SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 22 uniforms uniform NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 23 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 25 cop _ _ 25 expensive expensive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 ccomp _ _ 26 for for ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 28 det _ _ 28 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 29 . . 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 | **answer** *speech: assert* | present | a fair reply | the real point | | | | for school uniforms | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent point=Eventuality | | 2 | **is a** | present | a fair reply *not said here* | one real point | | the other side | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | can | uniforms | | | | | for some families; expensive *property* | 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:18`. **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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