--- title: Being scared of one thing doesn't mean being scared of everything; f… — Fighting fair: no straw men, no moving goalposts… · tree and pragmatics description: Being scared of one thing doesn't mean being scared of everything; fears are specific. Who acts: fears. 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 clause. --- [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/19/) [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/) / 19 # Fighting fair: no straw men, no moving goalposts, no either-or, sentence 19 Being scared of one thing doesn't mean being scared of everything; fears are specific. **Who acts:** fears · **What happens:** be, not mean · **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 (fears), 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:19 # text = Being scared of one thing doesn't mean being scared of everything; fears are specific. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 cop _ _ 2 scared scared ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 csubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 6 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 7 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 8 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 9 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 cop _ _ 10 scared scared ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:ccomp 11 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 10 obl _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 fears fear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 15 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 16 specific specific ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 17 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | gerund | | | | | | of one thing; scared *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **mean** | present · do-support | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** *not said to happen* | gerund | | | | | | of everything; scared *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | present | fears | | | | | specific *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:19`. **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): 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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