--- title: Agree the rules of a game before it starts; if you want a change, it… — Fighting fair: no straw men, no moving goalposts… · tree and pragmatics description: Agree the rules of a game before it starts; if you want a change, it starts next game. Who acts: you, game. 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/20/) [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/) / 20 # Fighting fair: no straw men, no moving goalposts, no either-or, sentence 20 Agree the rules of a game before it starts; if you want a change, it starts next game. **Who acts:** you, game · **What happens:** agree, start, want, rule · **To what, where:** rules, change, next game 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, game), 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:20 # text = Agree the rules of a game before it starts; if you want a change, it starts next game. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Agree agree VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 rules rule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 before before SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 starts start VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 advcl _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=1:punct 11 if if SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 12 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 change change NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 starts start VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:conj 19 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl:unmarked _ _ 21 . . 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* | the rules of a game | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent rule=Topic | | 2 | **start** | present | game | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 3 | **want** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | a change | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot change=Theme | | 4 | **start** | present | game | next game | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 5 | **rule** | | a game | | | | | | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: of=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:20`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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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