--- title: Mum says "less screen time on school nights"; Tom hears "never have… — Fighting fair: no straw men, no moving goalposts… · tree and pragmatics description: Mum says "less screen time on school nights"; Tom hears "never have fun again". Who acts: Mum, Tom. 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/3/) [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/) / 3 # Fighting fair: no straw men, no moving goalposts, no either-or, sentence 3 Mum says "less screen time on school nights"; Tom hears "never have fun again". **Who acts:** Mum, Tom · **What happens:** say, hear, not have · **To what, where:** fun · **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 (Mum, Tom), 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:3 # text = Mum says "less screen time on school nights"; Tom hears "never have fun again". # 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, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 4 less less ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 6 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:amod 5 screen screen NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:ccomp 7 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 nights night NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=2:punct 12 Tom Tom PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:compound 13 hears hear VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 14 " " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 15 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 16 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 ccomp _ _ 17 fun fun NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 18 again again ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 19 " " PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Mum | | | | time | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **hear** | present | Tom | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 3 | **not** **have** *in a quote* | infinitive | | fun | | | again | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fun=Patient | 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:3`. **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, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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