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title: Mum: "Less, Tom. — Fighting fair: no straw men, no moving goalposts… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mum: "Less, 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.
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# Fighting fair: no straw men, no moving goalposts, no either-or, sentence 4

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Mum: "Less, Tom.

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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: 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:4
# text = Mum: "Less, Tom.
# 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 ×1
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct
4	Less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	1	discourse	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	vocative	_	_
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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**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:4`.

**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 ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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